From Living Waters (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
COMMENCEMENT POEM, WRITTEN FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, JUNE, 1876."INTO the balm of the clover,Into the dawn and the dew,Come, ...
Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems on Love (33 Poems)
The Singer Of The Sea (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
IN MEMORY OF CELIA THAXTER.There is shadow on the sea!And a murmur, and a moan,In its muffled monotone,Like a solemn ...
Lucifer (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
The World sweeps by! It is the end of Time!Nay, not the end, for Time can have no end:A cycle ...
A Song Of The Summer Wind (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
BALMILY, balmily, summer wind,Sigh through the mountain passes;Over the sleep of the beautiful deep,Over the woods' green masses -Ripple the ...
The Vision Of Saint Francis (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
Francis D' Assisi, gentlest Saint of Saint's,Within his garden where the roses grewThat knew no thorn, slept from a wearinessOf ...
With A Wreath Of Laurel (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
O WINDS, that ripple the long grass!O winds, that kiss the jeweled sea!Grow still and lingering as you passAbout this ...
Redemption (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
Most fair is Earth!This side sweet Heaven, I think, no thing more fairThan the still faceShe turns to her white ...
Oblivion (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
BEYOND the flight of hours,Beneath the rooted flowers,Where winter rain, nor showersOf April, fall;Where days that say "Alas!"Forget to come, ...
Passed (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
(H. C.)Where in the unknown way,Sister, now standsThy soul-who yesterdayWith us joined hands?Where lies thy land unseen,O Warden Death?With just ...
Helen Hunt Jackson (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
WHAT songs found voice upon those lips, What magic dwelt within the pen,Whose music into silence slips, Whose spell lives not again!For ...
Cupid Kissed Me (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
Took a walk together;O, how beautiful the wayThrough the blooming heather!Far-off bells rang matin-chimes,Birds sang, silver-voicing,And our happy hearts beat ...
My Kindred (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
I grow aweary of my kind-Its petty aims, its creedsThat cripple mind and soul, and blindThe heart to trust needs;Aweary ...
Longfellow (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
Pleasant as sound of falling rain amongThe summer leaves, and the sweet as after rainThe moist earth is when the ...
Marah (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
"THE song were sweeter and betterIf only the thought were glad."Be hidden the chafe of the fetter,The scars of the ...
The Brook (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
THROUGH the dreary winter,Ice-locked, white, and chill!All its laughter sleeping,All its music still;Not a flower to love itFrom the bank ...
Leaf And Blade (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
I AM a lowly grass-blade,A fair green leaf is she,Her little fluttering shadowFalls daily over me.She sits so high in ...
Summons (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
LONG, swinging bells of pomegranate!O orange-buds, falling as snow!O singing of lark and of linnet -Singing high in the leaves, ...
Hope (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
Fairer than any flowerOf summer's hour,Sweeter than any love-Ay, sweet in truth! -Of her what shall be said?Hope, that is ...
Question And Answer (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
"WHAT gift hast thou for Me,The Crucified for thee?"No worthy thing:Nor song, nor praise, nor tears,From all these many years,Jesus, ...
Peace (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
Love, poised for ready flight,Ruddy as morning light,Bright and as brief his stay;Hope with alluring wingFair as the flowers of ...
A Prayer (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
SOUL! however sweetThe goal to which I hasten with swift feet -If, just within my grasp,I reach, and joy to ...
Sailed (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
O SHINING, sapphire sea!From thy bosom put awayEvery vexing thought to - day;Smile through all thy dimpling spray:All that earth ...
Meadowlarks (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
Sweet, sweet, sweet! O happy that I am!(Listen to the meadow-larks, across the fields that sing!)Sweet, sweet, sweet! O subtle ...
A Birthday Rhyme (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
So glide the days, dear! Dawn will not delay,Noontide will come, nor linger in its flight;And even-time in turn must ...
Lost Love (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
(Song)Love that came in with the morningIs fled with the night!Whither away?Whither away?Gone with nor word, with nor warning,O lost, ...
February (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
NEWLY wedded, and happy quite,Careless alike of wind and weather,Two wee birds, from a merry flight,Swing in the tree-top, sing ...
A Good-By (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
Under whatever skyThy pathway be,Near or afar,Clear be its light of sun, its light of star:Bright as the memoryWe hold ...
Christmas Eve (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
PEACE in thy snowy breast,O cloud, from storms at rest!Peace in the winds that sleepUpon the deep.Peace in the starry ...
No More (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
NAY, then, what can be doneWhen love is flown,When love has passed away?Sit in the twilight gray,Thinking how near he ...
With A La France Rose (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
For a love with a light that can fashionA glory that knows not eclipse,What voice, when its uttermost passionSets of ...