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 Night (35 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 ...
Midwinter East And West (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
No flower in all the land -No leaf upon the tree,Blossom, or bud, or fruit,But an icy fringe instead;And the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Portola Speaks (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
I have dreamed of San Francisco all the way-Francis d' Assisi! Seeking Monterey,That hides itself among these strangenesses-Leading now here, ...
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 ...
Millennium (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
THE night falls, heavy with the coming storm!Far out, the ocean frets against the bar,And the cloud-legions, gathering force and ...
The Coming (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
I GATHERED flowers the summer long;I dozed the days on sunny leas,And wove my fancies into song,Or dreamed in aimless ...
The Night Watch (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
IAt BethlehemShepherds, what of the night?'Dark, dark and cold;Snow upon field and fold,Wind that is fierce and wild!But over the ...
In Adversity (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
Friends whom I feasted in my luxury,In sorrow turned from me.A hundred servitors, that once did waitUpon my high estate,Me ...
How Looked The Earth? (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
HOW looked the earth unto His eyes,So lately closed OH Paradise?Clad all in purityOf snowy raiment, as a brideThat waiteth ...
An Emblem (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
I WAITED for a single flower to blow,While all about me flowers were running wild:Gold-hearted kingcups, sunnily that smiled,And daisies ...
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 ...
Lines (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
ON HEARING KELLEY'S MUSIC OF "MACBETH."MELODY, what children strange are theseFrom thy most vast, illimitable realm?These sounds that seize upon ...
Alcatraz (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
A pearl-foam at his feetThe waters leap and fall;The sentry treads his beatUpon the sun-girt wall.Bronzed of visage, he,Stern, resolute ...
Rebuke (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
"THE world is old and the world is cold,And never a day is fair," I said.Out of the heavens the ...
My House (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
Clean winds sweep over it,Blue sky to cover it,The sun to give it lightAnd moon and stars of night;Jeweled the ...
Retrospect (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
(IN LOS ANGELES.)A BREATH of balm - of orange bloom!By what strange fancy wafted me,Through the lone starlight of the ...
Wearisome (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
The wind it bloweth a-cold, a-cold,And the dreary Winter rain is falling;And over the desolate, drenched woldThe sad sea-voice is ...
Frederick III Of Germany (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
THERE fell a King! Not king alone in blood,Nor royal throne by right of which he reigned,But by the royalty ...
Haunted (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
The water, lapping, lapping in the reeds!What stood beside it in the waning moonAnd gave to it the sigh and ...
Not Yet (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
NOT yet from the yellow west,Fade, light of the autumn dayFar lies my haven of rest,And rough the way.She has ...
An Answer (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
THE wind was very sad among the branches,The moon had hid its light;I threw my window open to the darkness,And ...
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 ...
Beside The Dead (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
IT must be sweet, O thou, my dead, to lieWith hands that folded are from every taskSealed with the seal ...
Hope Deferred (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. Proverbs, XIII,12Where is the perfect VisionThe years have watched to see?Why do the footsteps ...
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, ...
Opportunity (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
The morning-glory, wet with the night rain,Swinging its sapphire bells against the pane,Chimes: 'Wake! The day is here!Wake, dreamer, to ...
In Memoriam (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
HON. B. P. AVERY DIED IN PEKING, CHINA, NOV. 8, 1875.GOD rest thy soul!O, kind and pure,Tender of heart, yet ...