Teresina’s Face (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
He saw it last of all before they herded in the steerage,Dark against the sunset where he lingered by the ...
Margaret Widdemer Poems (88 Poems)
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 ...
God’s Places (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
I SAID, "I am so tired of all the old tired faces In the crowded places,I tire of all the weary ...
The Gray Magician (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
I was living very merrily on Middle EarthAs merry as a maid may beTill the Gray Magician came down along ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mother-Prayer (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
"LORD, make my loving a guard for them Day and night,Let never pathway be hard for them; Keep all bright!Let not harsh ...
Song: I Wish I Were Old Now (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
I WISH I were old now, And maybe content;I'd look back the long way My footsteps were bent,And say, "'Tis all done ...
Peace (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
ALL my days are clear again and gentle with forgetting, Mornings cool with graciousness of time passed stilly by.Evening sweet with ...
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 ...
In An Office Building (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
I WENT down the old passageBetween the lighted doorsTo your lighted door,Knowing that I should find you there,Find your swift ...
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 ...
Departure (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
IT was not when I plead with her, And on a tragic dayClung sobbing to her skirts of rose, That Youth went ...
Woman-Lore (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
NOW this is what you learn at last Of men beneath the sun,With all the gates of living passed And all the ...
Father Prayer (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
Lord God, Who let Your baby sonPass earthward where the joys were fewTo a hard death when all was done,And ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Wood-Path (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
THE little wood-path wandered Green and brown and gayUp a hill and down a hill, Through a dew-wet way.It slipped beneath the ...
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 ...
Travel Prayer (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
ALL along the way As through the night we go,I see the little houses In lighted row on row-The flying train goes ...
Dream Death (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
WHAT though no folk who saw her knew At heart she was Pierrette,Who went her sober wayIn robe and face of ...
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 ...
Unspelled (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
THE world of dream is shattered; hill and tree And wing(Margaret Widdemer)
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 ...