Songs From A Masque (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
The Woodfolk Sweep ThroughThe Water-Spirit:Water flows in the wild wood deep, Dreamy water that slips and sighs,I shall whisper your heart ...
Margaret Widdemer Poems on Light (19 Poems)
Once When We Bought Valentines (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
(For Kenneth)CLOSE upon the window-glass pressed our eager faces-Hearts and torches all aflare, frame on frame of laces,Wreathing roses all ...
Garden Dream (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
THEY cried before my gate at morning-mirth,"Come out and help us burn the weeds from earth!"But I was planting out ...
The Factories (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
I have shut my little sister in from life and light(For a rose, for a ribbon, for a wreath across ...
The Faun’s Sweetheart (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
We met by the Wood of Doom,Day gone and the dusk come after . . .And I thought you were ...
The Garden (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
THERE were many flowers in my mother's garden, Sword-leaved gladiolus, taller far than I,Sticky-leaved petunias, pink and purple-flaring, Velvet-painted pansies staring at ...
Vain Hiding (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
I SAID: "I shall find peace now, for my love has never been Here in the little room, in the quiet ...
Heart Of Youth (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
WHEN I come back in the gloomTo my lighted house once moreMy heart says, "Haste tonight!There is something you do ...
The Unfound City (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
(For Alice Brown)THERE is a city burning in a dream All women know and search for secretly;The swift rose-hearted flame's eternal ...
Givers (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
MY lover kissed my lips, and his arms went round my body,But you were kissing the lips of my soul ...
Life Tells The Dreamer (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
THESE others ask me little, clamoringFor such imperfect gifts as I can bring;A crown . . . with thorns along ...
A Boy Of The Ghetto (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
HE goes out with his Dreams Through the dingy city square,Purple- and silver-winged They go with him everywhere.The quarreling hags at the ...
His Mother (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
HE will be cold tonight- Always he felt it so.(Strange not to lift the light, Strange not to go,Softly- for he forgets, Careless ...
Tea (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
THEY'VE flowers and cakes and candle-light, And chair by crowded chair,And I am very sweet and kind, Because I do not care ...
One Worse Thing (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
LAST Spring I walked these ways, and a sharp grief walked with me,For you had broken my heart with a ...
I Did Not Know (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
I DID not know that I should miss you, So silver-soft your loving came,There were no trumpets down the dawning, There were ...
Once I Met Happiness (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
ONCE when all the Spring was wild, All the leaves dew-pearled,Once I met Happiness, Singing down the world.She had laughter on her ...
I Took His Dreams (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
I TOOK his dreams from him, Boy-dreams of gold and red,I gave him sorrows dim, White grief, instead, . . .And for ...
The Masters (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
YOU have taught me laughter, Joyousness and light,How the day is rosy-wild, Star-enthrilled the night:Maybe God can teach me After you are goneHow ...