For it can live a thousand times,
Eternity is deep and wide.
I am not sorry for my soul,
But oh, my body that must go
Back to a little drift of dust
Without the joy it longed to know.
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Alone in the night
With pines around meSpicy and still,And a heaven full of starsOver my headWhite and topazAnd misty red;Myriads with beatingHearts of fireThe aeonsCannot vex or tire;Up the dome of heavenLike a great hillI watch them marchingStately and still.And I know that IAm honored to beWitnessOf so much majesty.
Love in my heart was a fresh tide flowing
The sun was keen and the foam was blowingHigh on the rocky shore.But now in the dusk the tide is turning,Lower the sea gulls soar,And the waves that rose in resistless yearningAre broken forevermore.
HUSHED in the smoky haze of summer sunset,
How many times I saw my western cityDream by her river.Then for an hour the water wore a mantleOf tawny gold and mauve and misted turquoiseUnder the tall and darkened arches bearingGray, high-flung bridges.Against the sunset, water-towers and steeplesFlickered with fire up the slope to westward,And old warehouses poured their purple shadowsAcross the levee.High over…
Was Time not harsh to you, or was he kind,
That he has left no word of singing fireWhereby you waked the dreaming Lesbian wind,And kindled night along the lyric shore?O girl whose lips Erato stooped to kiss,Do you go sorrowing because of thisIn fields where poets sing forevermore?Or are you glad and is it best to beA silent music men have never heard,A dream…
I
I am the princess up in the towerAnd I dream the whole day thro’Of a knight who shall come with a silver spearAnd a waving plume of blue.I am the princess up in the tower,And I dream my dreams by day,But sometimes I wake, and my eyes are wet,When the dusk is deep and gray.For…
Let it be forgotten, as a flower is forgotten,
Let it be forgotten forever and ever,Time is a kind friend, he will make us old.If anyone asks, say it was forgottenLong and long ago,As a flower, as a fire, as a hushed footfallIn a long-forgotten snow.