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 World (20 Poems)
Old Books (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
THE people up and down the world that talk and laugh and cry,They're pleasant when you're young and gay, and ...
A Ballad of the Wise Men (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
The Christ-Child lay in BethlehemAnd the Wise Men gave Him gold,And Mary-Mother she hearkened themAs they prayed in the cattle-fold:"Smile ...
When I Was A Young Girl (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
(A Song of Old Ballads)WHEN I was a young girl, all in a green arbor, When I was a young girl ...
Women (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
YOU fret and grieve and turn aboutTo make this world and living out,With "This is so" and "That is so-"Ah, ...
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 Wakened God (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
The War-god wakened drowsily; There were gold chains about his hands. He said: "And who shall reap my landsAnd bear the tithes ...
The Singing Wood (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
I FOLLOWED far from the roadway After my golden ball(How could I tell the way it went Where it might lie or ...
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 ...
People (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
(For Jessie Rittenhouse)I AM so sorry for them allWhose ceaseless footsteps rise and fallAlong earth's highways endlessly,The people in the ...
To Youth after Pain (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
What if this year has givenGrief that some year must bring,What if it hurt your joyous youth,Crippled your laughter's wing?You ...
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 Lost Comrade (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
YOU live as the world would have you do-Only the sleeping soul of youLies unwakened by wind or dew.Your soul, ...
Prayer for the New Year (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
Lord God, we lift to TheeA world hurt sore.Look down, and let it beWounded no more!Lord, when this year is ...
Homes (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
The lamplight's shaded roseOn couch and chair and wall,The drowsy book let fall,The children's heads, bent closeIn some deep argument,The ...
Fulfilment (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
CROSSING through Heaven's doors, If Heaven may be for me,I shall not seek gold floors Nor jasper wall nor sea;Out from the ...
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 ...
Interim (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
I HAVE a little peace today, And I can pause and seeHow life is filled with golden things And gracious things for ...
Denial (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
IT never would have hurt God To have made the world today So that your footsteps turned my way,So that our two ...
Song (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
The Spring will come when the year turns, As if no Winter had been, But what shall I do with ...