Come, when the pale moon like a petal

The sun goes down in yellow mist,The sky is fresh with dewy starsAbove a sea of amethyst.Yet in the city of my loveHigh noon burns all the heavens bare —For him the happiness of light,For me a delicate despair.II. Off AlgeirsOh give me neither love nor tears,Nor dreams that sear the night with fire,Go lightly…

The tree of my song is bareOn its shining hill.For you came like a lordly wind,And the leaves were whirledFar as forgotten thingsPast the rim of the world.The tree of my song stands bareAgainst the blue —I gave my songs to the rest,Myself to you.

I felt my lover look at herAnd then turn suddenly to me.Her hair was dull and drew no lightAnd yet its color was as mine;Her eyes were strangely like my eyesTho’ love had never made them shine.Her body was a thing grown thin,Hungry for love that never came;Her soul was frozen in the darkUnwarmed forever…

He came along the crowded street,By all the ladies gay,And oh, he smiled and spoke to meBefore he went his way.My throat was tight with happiness,I couldn’t say a word,My heart was beating fast, so fastI’m sure he must have heard;And when he passed, I trembled likeA little frightened bird.I wish I were the flower-girlWho…

Painting with fire the spires and the windowsIn the elm-shaded town.Beyond the calm Connecticut the hills lieSilvered with haze as fruits still fresh with bloom,The swallows weave in flight across the zenithOn an aerial loom.Into the garden peace comes back with twilight,Peace that since noon had left the purple phlox,The heavy-headed asters, the late rosesAnd…

I heard the waves breaking in measured thunderAs you and I once heard their monotone.Around me were the echoing dunes, beyond meThe cold and sparkling silver of the sea —We two will pass through death and ages lengthenBefore you hear that sound again with me.Submitted by Venus