A Poet Of Provence (Jewell Miller Poems)
THE ARRIVALThe sunlight of a waning winter daySent one long ray, aflame, across the gloomWhere Ludovico, Count of Ventimiglia,Bowed his ...
Jewell Miller Poems (21 Poems)
Memory Of The Corniche Road (Jewell Miller Poems)
Road that passes valleys,(A many-tinted scroll),Dark with pines, gay with blooms,Unwinds beside the sea;Where silver-dusted olives,(A fangled fringe of olives)Sway ...
Maypole A La Mode (Jewell Miller Poems)
Construction sets a mighty maypole upCloud-touching tip, base held in granite cup.Instead of romping girls and shouting boys,Damned drilling din ...
With No Distinctions (Jewell Miller Poems)
Cover them ... cover them, over and overWith blankets of sweet grass and fresh white clover.Cover them ... cover them, ...
Autumn Rover (Jewell Miller Poems)
All through the night the wind lies still,Curbing the strength of an eager will;Morning finds it humming through the trees ...
The Rhythm Of Life (Jewell Miller Poems)
O youth, with your eager right hand up-flungAbove Time's level line,With the wine of life in your rippling limbsAnd hope-lit ...
Moonlit Olive Grove (Jewell Miller Poems)
Faintly heard mutterings,Dimly seen flutterings,Crouching forms ... tangled hair,Withered limbs ... visage bare.Groping foot ... earth-bound rootSeek motion: Slowly shoot ...
Direction (Jewell Miller Poems)
How shall it be when I go hence? Shall IBear forth the tablets of my day incisedBy my own hand,-- in ...
Evocation (Jewell Miller Poems)
Something is calling ... calling through the rain,--I heard it first when I was but a child,Careless, among rose-brambles running ...
To “The Pioneer Mother” (Jewell Miller Poems)
How long this senseless stone by bound by night,And buffeted by every wind on high,--Then workmen came, they salvaged it; ...
Reticence (Jewell Miller Poems)
When all the sun-kissed ways are darkAnd silence reigns where laughter ruled,Walk in the silent ways apart ...And by much ...
The Cameo Carver (Jewell Miller Poems)
Sequestered by a wall of sunbaked clay,His bowed head turned to catch the waning lightFrom one high shell he held ...
Spirals (Jewell Miller Poems)
Spirals fascinate me:They ascendBy such gentle gradations.Little green spiralsOf the vineThat creep softly--Then lay strong holdOn stony crevices,Lifting a great ...
Fences (Jewell Miller Poems)
I cannot see the mountains for the fences,Although the hills aspire unto the sky,And this near length of wooden palings ...
Mosaic (Jewell Miller Poems)
Bit by bit, and a wedge between,Piece by piece with the edge unseen.Porphyry for the garden pool,In silver flows the ...
Mendicant (Jewell Miller Poems)
Tattered mendicant,I give you alms ...I toss loose coinInto your palms.I give you largess ...My heavy packInvisibleUpon my back.You finger ...
Circumstance (Jewell Miller Poems)
I know the secretOf a god-given brew ...Foam of ecstacySparkle of dew.But I have no flagon ...I still must yearnFor ...
Shadowed (Jewell Miller Poems)
Deeper than the seaThat has no sounding,Softer than the hushThat comes when all is over,Silent as the feet that seekAnd ...
Welded (Jewell Miller Poems)
That which has long lain near the heartCan never be a thing apart.Though usage fade and time retard it,Though life ...
Prayer To The Thunder God (Jewell Miller Poems)
Wakonda,-- unknown Wakonda,Thou who slayeth with Light,See the warrior bendTo propitiate thy might.Gravely now he woos theeWith the Pipe of ...
Legacy (Jewell Miller Poems)
Our wisdom ripens on a dying vineAnd those unknown shall garner in our store,--For we must wait till Autumn for ...