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 ...
The Woodfolk Sweep ThroughThe Water-Spirit:Water flows in the wild wood deep, Dreamy water that slips and sighs,I shall whisper your heart ...
(A Song of Old Ballads)WHEN I was a young girl, all in a green arbor, When I was a young girl ...
YOU fret and grieve and turn aboutTo make this world and living out,With "This is so" and "That is so-"Ah, ...
(For Kenneth)CLOSE upon the window-glass pressed our eager faces-Hearts and torches all aflare, frame on frame of laces,Wreathing roses all ...
1OLD TALESHER voice within the darkened room Tells on- old jests and tragediesAnd little follies of her kin And futile old nobilities:". ...
(For Aline)MY feet have touched the Dancing Water, My lips have kissed the Singing RoseAnd I was born a swan-girl's daughter ...
THE wires gleamed far and silver, Lines on a morning sky;I heard the white wires singing Their song as I went by;Far ...
(For Jessie Rittenhouse)I AM so sorry for them allWhose ceaseless footsteps rise and fallAlong earth's highways endlessly,The people in the ...
THIS was one of the dreary whilesWhen a woman sits and smilesWishing all the talk was over,Inward thought a weary ...
He saw it last of all before they herded in the steerage,Dark against the sunset where he lingered by the ...
I SAID: "I shall find peace now, for my love has never been Here in the little room, in the quiet ...
WHEN I come back in the gloomTo my lighted house once moreMy heart says, "Haste tonight!There is something you do ...
THESE others ask me little, clamoringFor such imperfect gifts as I can bring;A crown . . . with thorns along ...
IT was not when I plead with her, And on a tragic dayClung sobbing to her skirts of rose, That Youth went ...
Up and down the street I know,Now that there are Grief and War,All day long the people goAs they went ...
IF you were but near me, O kindest and best,I could tell you my trouble, And I could have rest;You would smile ...
Under dusky laurel leaf,Scarlet leaf of rose,I lie prone, who have knownAll a woman knows.Love and grief and motherhood,Fame and ...
I SAID, "Love is gone; I need bear no moreTerrible dawn And midnight soreHungering dreams I cannot keepAnd fever-streams Across my sleep . . ...
YOU hid the love in your eyes- How could you think I knew?It was only a step to his comforting From the ...
IF I could lift My heart but high enough My heart could fill with love:But ah, my heart Too still and heavy stays Too ...
I THINK that we are very strong and wise, Mocking at love and at the grief thereafter, . . .For sometimes ...
Well, if the thing is over, better it is for me, The lad was ever a rover, loving and laughing ...
I am the Dark Cavalier; I am the Last Lover: My arms shall welcome you when other arms are tired; ...
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