Poems

A Fantasy Her voice is like clear water That drips upon a stone In forests far and silent Where Quiet plays alone. Her thoughts are like […]

A Little While A little while when I am gone My life will live in music after me, As spun foam lifted and borne on After […]

A Maiden Oh if I were the velvet rose Upon the red rose vine, I’d climb to touch his window And make his casement fine. And […]

A Minuet of Mozart’s Across the dimly lighted room The violin drew wefts of sound, Airily they wove and wound And glimmered gold against the gloom. […]

A November Night There! See the line of lights, A chain of stars down either side the street — Why can’t you lift the chain and […]

A Prayer When I am dying, let me know That I loved the blowing snow Although it stung like whips; That I loved all lovely things […]

A Song of the Princess The princess has her lovers, A score of knights has she, And each can sing a madrigal, And praise her gracefully. […]

A Winter Bluejay Crisply the bright snow whispered, Crunching beneath our feet; Behind us as we walked along the parkway, Our shadows danced, Fantastic shapes in […]

A Winter Night My window-pane is starred with frost, The world is bitter cold to-night, The moon is cruel, and the wind Is like a two-edged […]

Advice to a Girl No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed; Lay that on your heart, My young angry dear; This truth, this hard and […]