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 ...
THE people up and down the world that talk and laugh and cry,They're pleasant when you're young and gay, and ...
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 ...
(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:". ...
AS long as you never marry me, and I never marry you,There's nothing on earth that we cannot say and ...
(For Aline)MY feet have touched the Dancing Water, My lips have kissed the Singing RoseAnd I was born a swan-girl's daughter ...
St. Jeanne she sat with Micha(Margaret Widdemer)
THEY cried before my gate at morning-mirth,"Come out and help us burn the weeds from earth!"But I was planting out ...
Ours was a quiet town, a still town, a sober town,Softly curled the yellow roads that slept in the sun,Staid ...
The War-god wakened drowsily; There were gold chains about his hands. He said: "And who shall reap my landsAnd bear the tithes ...
Ours is a dark Easter-tide,And a scarlet Spring,But high up at Heaven-GateAll the saints sing,Glad for the great companiesReturning to ...
I have shut my little sister in from life and light(For a rose, for a ribbon, for a wreath across ...
The little pitiful, worn, laughing faces,Begging of Life for Joy!I saw the little daughters of the poor,Tense from the long ...
I FOLLOWED far from the roadway After my golden ball(How could I tell the way it went Where it might lie or ...
THE wires gleamed far and silver, Lines on a morning sky;I heard the white wires singing Their song as I went by;Far ...
We met by the Wood of Doom,Day gone and the dusk come after . . .And I thought you were ...
SHE loves the flowers, the wind that bends the fir;When the Spring comes she dances; and her mirthComes always when ...
All of the Old KingsAre wakened from their sleep,Arthur out of Avalon,Ogier from the deep,Redbeard from his Dragon-Rock,Sigurd from his ...
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 ...
SHE sits and makes pink roses with her threadAnd wonders what to do, her heart astir,What road to take, where ...
(For Jessie Rittenhouse)I AM so sorry for them allWhose ceaseless footsteps rise and fallAlong earth's highways endlessly,The people in the ...
(Children at play on a French Battlefield)"When I was a child,"You shall tell one day,Children, on these blackened fieldsGallantly at ...
There were seven shining stars that swung above my cradle(She never was kind to me, Diana our Lady the Moon!)And ...
THOUGH she has a name you bore,Elfin-Heart we loved before,You are lost to us, you child,Little life-flame burning wild!Though her ...
I TELL my heart, to hush her achingWhen we are sleeping, when we're waking,Of things we loved well, she and ...
THIS was one of the dreary whilesWhen a woman sits and smilesWishing all the talk was over,Inward thought a weary ...
(For Anna Hempstead Branch)I WENT to the house of the Lady of Dreams For a dream to carry awayThat should ferry ...
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