“She Wandered After Strange Gods.” (Laura Benet Poems)
O have you seen my fairy steed?His eyes are wild, his mane is white,He feeds upon an elfin weedIn cool ...
Laura Benet Poems (21 Poems)
“Feathers – Flowers” (Laura Benet Poems)
"Feathers! Don't fall among 'em, ma'am!Sometimes they fills this garret deep.You can't see any ? Wonder why!They bresh my face when ...
Cushy Cow (Laura Benet Poems)
Cushy cow has curly horns,Delicate, tipped with brown.Swifter her hoofs fly backwardThan any bull's in town.We milk her into great ...
Adventure (Laura Benet Poems)
Black wave the trees in the forestAnd a rough wind hurries by,But the swineherd's toddling daughterKnows where fallen pinecones lie.And ...
To A Parrot In A Farmhouse (Laura Benet Poems)
Those who have clipped your wings will never seeRipe fruit a-dropping from the cocoa-tree,Or smell the dusky sandalwood's perfume,Or see ...
The Penny (Laura Benet Poems)
A penny, a penny small, a penny round!Why do you bend your eyes upon the ground?Magical things that leap and ...
The Working Children To The Story Teller (Laura Benet Poems)
Tell us a story to make us seeThings that gleamed on us long agoDaisy meadows and fairy rings,Greening woods, where ...
Gardens Of Babylon (Laura Benet Poems)
Huddled chimneys, grey, forlorn,In the deadened light of a city morn.Rooftops ranging, red and high,Tenement windows glaring, dry.And - flower ...
Joan (Laura Benet Poems)
Fated for conquest, rode she from the door,Cast a last look at ripening harvest-field,Shimmering leaves, and all the fruitful yieldOf ...
Circles (Laura Benet Poems)
"Yes, this is it, the snowy ring -Drawn with chalk and a piece of string!Tell me why it was not ...
Fairy Tales (Laura Benet Poems)
A half-starved flock of little city strays,They sit expectant in the warm school-room,Lighting with their wan smiles its ordered gloomAnd ...
The Dragon’s Grandmother (Laura Benet Poems)
Titanic courage nerved this little frameTo grapple fate. Thin, gnome-like, sadly lame,She steers her cockleshell along its wayWith never promise ...
The Quest (Laura Benet Poems)
I am seeking for my pool.It lies among the heather,Where misty mountains gatherStill and cool.Winds fan its shores and guard ...
“Little Fishes In Glass Dishes” (Laura Benet Poems)
Verdant and glassyIts sides rise sheerly.Light frothy bubblesFloat to its surface,And deep within itTransparent fishes,Tiny coiled sea-horsesSwim to and fro.Steadily ...
Humor (Laura Benet Poems)
A fairy dancesIn upland pastures,Picking tart crabapples,Swinging low;Twisted and green,Elfin-mouthed, lean,His feet may be chainedThey are never slow.He slyly peeps ...
The Witch’s House (Laura Benet Poems)
Its wicked little windows leerBeneath a moldy thatch,And village children come and peerBefore they lift the latch.A one-eyed crow hops ...
Peter (Laura Benet Poems)
Peter of the brothers threeLoved a life of poesy;While they stolid bargains droveHe saw movies in the stove.Peter was a ...
Pity The Moon (Laura Benet Poems)
A withered crone is the moon to-nightBent, unloved and proud,Shuffling in the windy lightThrough dipping vales of cloud.Her dreams, her ...
Io Victis (Laura Benet Poems)
Not for the victor brows with bays enwreathed,Not for those souls once fed with eager fireWho reached their heart's desire;But ...
The Thrush (Laura Benet Poems)
God bade the birds break not the silent spellThat lay upon the wood.Longing for liquid notes that never fellAched the ...
Enemies (Laura Benet Poems)
I am afraid of the dark,That it will not let me alone;The intimacies of its silenceWould kindle stone.But I 'm ...