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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

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