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The little clouds go by。
Yet the back´yards are bare and brown
With only one unchanging tree
I could not be so sure of Spring
Save that it sings in me。
COME
COME�察�when the pale moon like a petal
Floats in the pearly dusk of spring��
Come with arms outstretched to take me��
Come with lips pursed up to cling。
Come�察�for life is a frail moth flying
Caught in the web of the years that pass��
And soon we two�察�so warm and eager
Will be as the gray stones in the grass。
MOODS
I AM the still rain falling��
Too tired for singing mirth
Oh�察�be the green fields calling��
Oh�察�be for me the earth��
I am the brown bird pining
To leave the nest and fly
Oh�察�be the fresh cloud shining��
Oh�察�be for me the sky��
APRIL SONG
WILLOW in your April gown
Delicate and gleaming��
Do you mind in years gone by
All my dreaming��
Spring was like a call to me
That I could not answer��
I was chained to loneliness��
I�察�the dancer。
Willow�察�twinkling in the sun��
Still your leaves and hear me��
I can answer spring at last��
Love is near me��
MAY DAY
THE shining line of motors��
The swaying motor´bus��
The prancing dancing horses
Are passing by for us。
The sunlight on the steeple��
The toys we stop to see��
The smiling passing people
Are all for you and me。
;I love you and I love you� �
;And oh�察�I love you�察�too� �
;All of the flower girl's lilies
Were only grown for you� �
Fifth Avenue and April
And love and lack of care
The world is mad with music
Too beautiful to bear。
CROWNED
I WEAR a crown invisible and clear��
And go my lifted royal way apart
Since you have crowned me softly in your heart
With love that is half ardent�察�half austere��
And as a queen disguised might pass anear
The bitter crowd that barters in a mart��
Veiling her pride while tears of pity start��
I hide my glory thru a jealous fear。
My crown shall stay a sweet and secret thing
Kept pure with prayer at evensong and morn��
And when you come to take it from my head��
I shall not weep�察�nor will a word be said��
But I shall kneel before you�察�oh my king��
And bind my brow forever with a thorn。
TO A CASTILIAN SONG
WE held the book together timidly��
Whose antique music in an alien tongue
Once rose among the dew´drenched vines that hung
Beneath a high Castilian balcony。
I felt the lute strings' ancient ecstasy��
And while he read�察�my love´filled heart was stung��
And throbbed�察�as where an ardent bird has clung
The branches tremble on a blossomed tree。
Oh lady for whose sake the song was made��
Laid long ago in some still cypress shade��
Divided from the man who longed for thee��
Here in a land whose name he never heard��
His song brought love as April brings the bird��
And not a breath divides my love from me��
BROADWAY
THIS is the quiet hour�察�the theaters
Have gathered in their crowds�察�and steadily
The million lights blaze on for few to see��
Robbing the sky of stars that should be hers。
A woman waits with bag and shabby furs��
A somber man drifts by�察�and only we
Pass up the street unwearied�察�warm and free��
For over us the olden magic stirs。
Beneath the liquid splendor of the lights
We live a little ere the charm is spent��
This night is ours�察�of all the golden nights��
The pavement an enchanted palace floor��
And Youth the player on the viol�察�who sent
A strain of music thru an open door。
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 vivid blue。
Across the lake the skaters
Flew to and fro��
With sharp turns weaving
A frail invisible net。
In ecstasy the earth
Drank the silver sunlight��
In ecstasy the skaters
Drank the wine of speed��
In ecstasy we laughed
Drinking the wine of love。
Had not the music of our joy
Sounded its highest note��
But no��
RIVERS TO THE SEA
For suddenly�察�with lifted eyes you said��
;Oh look� �
There�察�on the black bough of a snow flecked maple��
Fearless and gay as our love��
A bluejay cocked his crest��
Oh who can tell the range of joy
Or set the bounds of beauty��
IN A RESTAURANT
THE darkened street was muffled with the snow��
The falling flakes had made your shoulders white��
And when we found a shelter from the night
Its glamor fell upon us like a blow。
The clash of dishes and the viol and bow
Mingled beneath the fever of the light。
The heat was full of savors�察�and the bright
Laughter of women lured the wine to flow。
A little child ate nothing while she sat
Watching a woman at a table there
Lean to a kiss beneath a drooping hat。
The hour went by�察�we rose and turned to go��
The somber street received us from the glare��
And once more on your shoulders fell the snow。
JOY
I AM wild�察�I will sing to the trees��
I will sing to the stars in the sky��
I love�察�I am loved�察�he is mine��
Now at last I can die��
I am sandaled with wind and with flame��
I have heart´fire and singing to give��
I can tread on the grass or the stars��
Now at last I can live��
IN A RAILROAD STATION
WE stood in the shrill electric light��
Dumb and sick in the whirling din
We who had all of love to say
And a single second to say it in。
;Good´by� ─ �Good´by� �you turned to go��
I felt the train's slow heavy start��
You thought to see me cry�察�but oh
My tears were hidden in my heart。
IN THE TRAIN
FIELDS beneath a quilt of snow
From which the rocks and stubble peep��
And in the west a shy white star
That shivers as it wakes from sleep。
The restless rumble of the train��
The drowsy people in the car��
Steel blue twilight in the world��
And in my heart a timid star。
TO ONE AWAY
I HEARD a cry in the night��
A thousand miles it came��
Sharp as a flash of light��
My name�察�my name��
It was your voice I heard��
You waked and loved me so
I send you back this word��
I know�察�I know��
SONG
Love me with your whole heart
Or give no love to me��
Half´love is a poor thing��
Neither bond nor free。
You must love me gladly
Soul and body too��
Or else find a new love��
And good´by to you。
DEEP IN THE NIGHT
DEEP in the night the cry of a swallow��
Under the stars he flew��
Keen as pain was his call to follow
Over the world to you。
Love in my heart is a cry forever
Lost as the swallow's flight��
Seeking for you and never�察�never
Stilled by the stars at night。
THE INDIA WHARF
HERE in the velvet stillness
The wide sown fields fall to the faint horizon��
Sleeping in starlight。 。 。 。
A year ago we walked in the jangling city
Together 。 。 。 。 forgetful。
One by one we crossed the avenues��
Rivers of light�察�roaring in tumult��
And came to the narrow�察�knotted streets。
Thru the tense crowd
We went aloof�察�ecstatic�察�walking in wonder��
Unconscious of our motion。
Forever the foreign people with dark�察�deep´seeing eyes
Passed us and passed。
Lights and foreign words and foreign faces��
I forgot them all��
RIVERS TO THE SEA
I only felt alive�察�defiant of all death and sorrow��
Sure and elated。
That was the gift you gave me。 。 。 。
The streets grew still more tangled��
And led at last to water black and glossy��
Flecked here and there with lights�察�faint and far off。
There on a shabby building was a sign
;The India Wharf ; 。 。 。 and we turned back。
I always felt we could have taken ship
And crossed the bright green seas
To dreaming cities set on sacred streams
And palaces
Of ivory and scarlet。
I SHALL NOT CARE
WHEN I am dead and over me bright April
Shakes out her rain´drenched hair��
Tho' you should lean above me broken´hearted��
I shall not care。
I shall have peace�察�as leafy trees are peaceful
When rain bends down the bough��
And I shall be more silent and cold´hearted
Than you are now。
DESERT POOLS
I LOVE too much�察�I am a river
Surging with spring that seeks the sea��
I am too generous a giver��
Love will not stoop to drink of me。
His feet will turn to desert places
Shadowless�察�reft of rain and dew��
Where stars stare down with sharpened faces
From heavens pitilessly blue。
And there at midnight sick with faring��
He will stoop down in his desire
To slake the thirst grown past all bearing
In stagnant water keen as fire。
LONGING
I AM not sorry for my soul
That it must go unsatisfied��
For it can live a thousand times��
Eternity is deep and wide。
I am not sorry for my soul��
But oh�察�my body that must go
Back to a little drift of dust
Without the joy it longed to know。
PITY
THEY never saw my lover's face��
They only know our love was brief��
Wearing awhile a windy grace
And passing like an autumn leaf。
They wonder why I do not weep��
They think it strange that I can sing��
They say�察 �Her love was scarcely deep
Since it has left so slight a sting。;
They never saw my love�察�nor knew
That in my heart's most secret place
I pity them as angels do
Men who have never seen God's face。
AFTER PARTING
OH I have sown my love so wide
That he will find it everywhere��
It will awake him in the night��
It will enfold him in the air。
I set my shadow in his sight
And I have winged it with desire��
That it may be a cloud by day
And in the night a shaft of fire。
ENOUGH
IT is enough for me by day
To walk the same bright earth with him��
Enough that over us by night
The same great roof of stars is dim。
I have no care to bind the wind
Or set a fetter on the sea
It is enough to feel his love
Blow by like music over me。
ALCHEMY
I LIFT my heart as spring lifts up
A yellow daisy to the rain��
My heart will be a lovely cup
Altho' it holds but pain。
For I shall learn from flower and leaf
That color every drop they hold��
To change the lifeless wine of grief
To living gold。
FEBRUARY
THEY spoke of him I love
With cruel words and gay��
My lips kept silent guard
On all I could not say。
I heard�察�and down the street
The lonely trees in the square
Sto