Poems

Story “And if he’s gone away,” said she, “Good riddance, if you’re asking me. I’m not a one to lie awake And weep for anybody’s sake. […]

Story of Mrs. W- My garden blossoms pink and white, A place of decorous murmuring, Where I am safe from August night And cannot feel the […]

Summary Every love’s the love before In a duller dress. That’s the measure of my lore- Here’s my bitterness: Would I knew a little more, Or […]

Superfluous Advice Should they whisper false of you. Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and swear they lie.

Surprise My heart went fluttering with fear Lest you should go, and leave me here To beat my breast and rock my head And stretch me […]

Sweet Violets You are brief and frail and blue- Little sisters, I am, too. You are Heaven’s masterpieces- Little loves, the likeness ceases.

Symptom Recital I do not like my state of mind; I’m bitter, querulous, unkind. I hate my legs, I hate my hands, I do not yearn […]

Temps Perdu I never may turn the loop of a road Where sudden, ahead, the sea is Iying, But my heart drags down with an ancient […]

Testament Oh, let it be a night of lyric rain And singing breezes, when my bell is tolled. I have so loved the rain that I […]

The Apple Tree When first we saw the apple tree The boughs were dark and straight, But never grief to give had we, Though Spring delayed […]