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 ...
Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems on Soul (24 Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
To-Day’s Singing (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
WEAVE me a rhyme to-day:No pleasant roundelay,But some vague, restless yearning' of the heartShaped with but little artTo broken numbers, ...
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 ...
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 ...
They Shall Be Satisfied (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
Once, in a dream, I saw the Saviour's face!That Face within its aureole of Light,Star, moon and sun, forever, to ...
On A Fly-Leaf Of Omar (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
Poet-Astronomer, who night by nightGod's star-page scanned, yet failed to read aright,Where throughout space His alphabet of sunsSpells Life, in ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Bribe (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
' All These I Will Give Thee'World plaudits!Glamour of the tinsel crowdIn adulation! Fame, the meator Fame,And Youth, still golden ...
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 ...
Paderewski (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
The stars that sang in Time's awakening,Send each to each upon their golden roundA messenger, to hold the chords profoundUnbroken ...
Edwin Booth (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
IN vision, I beheld by Avon's sideThe mighty Shakespeare, and a wondrous train -The vast creations of that matchless brain ...
The Unknown Great (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
NOT to the brave upon the battle-fieldAlone, the palms of victory belong,Nor only to the great of earth the songOf ...
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 ...
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 ...
Quest (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
THE green leaves grow and grow,And the birds build in the trees;Ah, sweethearts, could I linger, linger,With soul at ease!O ...
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 ...
One (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
Light of the suns and stars of heaven,The sweet warm air, and the green earth sod,And birth and death unto ...
Discipline (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
UPON the patient earthA thousand tempests beat,To call to life the flowersThat make her glad and sweet.So, o'er the human ...
The Watcher (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
O solitary watcher on the height,What holds the world for thee, a-near or far?Look up! There dawned for thee one ...