DEATH went up the hall

And the petals fall on the orchard wall,But for me the spring is done.Beneath the apple blossomsI go a wintry way,For love that smiled in AprilIs false to me in May.

Come to us, go from us, whence no one knows;So the old tunes float in my mind,And go from me leaving no trace behind,Like fragrance borne on the hush of the wind.but in the instant the airs remainI know the laughter and the painOf times that will not come again.I try to catch at many…

Your beauty lives in mystic melodies,And all the light about you breathes a song.Your voice awakes the dreaming airs that throngWithin our music-haunted memories.The sirens’ strain that sank within the seasWhen men forgot to listen, floats alongYour voice’s undercurrent soft and strong.Sicilian shepherds pipe beneath the trees;Along the purple hills of drifted sand,A lone Egyptian…

It is mine forevermore,It ebbs not back like the sea.I am the pool of blueThat worships the vivid sky;My hopes were heaven-high,They are all fulfilled in you.I am the pool of goldWhen sunset burns and dies–You are my deepening skies,Give me your stars to hold.

And Loves that sit a-weepingWhose joy will come too late.For some there be that ope their doors,And some there be that close,And Love must go a-begging,But whither, no one knows.His feet are on the thorny ways,And on the dew-cold grass,No ears have ever heard him sing,No eyes have seen him pass.And yet he wanders thro’…

I was a child of the shining meadow,I was a sister of the sky.There in the windy flood of morningLonging lifted its weight from me,Lost as a sob in the midst of cheering,Swept as a sea-bird out to sea.