There is no magic any more, We meet as other people do,You work no miracle for me Nor I for you. You were the wind and I the sea— There…
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This is the quiet hour; the theaters Have gathered in their crowds, and steadily The million lights blaze on for few to see,Robbing the sky of stars that should be…
The April night is still and sweet With flowers on every tree;Peace comes to them on quiet feet, But not to me. My peace is hidden in his breast Where I…
Into my heart’s treasury I slipped a coinThat time cannot take Nor a thief purloin, —Oh better than the minting Of a gold-crowned kingIs the safe-kept memory Of a lovely…
I dream that he is mine, I dream that he is true,And all his words I keep As rose-leaves hold the dew. O little thirsty rose, O little heart beware,Lest…
Every night I lie awake And every day I lie abedAnd hear the doctors, Pain and Death, Confering at my head.They speak in scientific tones, Professional and low—One argues for…
The dreams of my heart and my mind pass,Nothing stays with me long,But I have had from a childThe deep solace of song; If that should ever leave me,Let me…
My forefathers gave me My spirit’s shaken flame,The shape of hands, the beat of heart, The letters of my name. But it was my lovers, And not my sleeping sires,Who…
Her voice is like clear water That drips upon a stoneIn forests far and silent Where Quiet plays alone. Her thoughts are like the lotus Abloom by sacred streamsBeneath the…
They came to tell your faults to me,They named them over one by one;I laughed aloud when they were done,I knew them all so well before,—Oh, they were blind, too…
Look back with longing eyes and know that I will follow,Lift me up in your love as a light wind lifts a swallow,Let our flight be far in sun or…
The bells ring over the Anno, Midnight, the long, long chime;Here in the quivering darkness I am afraid of time. Oh, gray bells cease your tolling, Time takes too much…
Oh in the deep blue night The fountain sang alone;It sang to the drowsy heart Of a satyr carved in stone.The fountain sang and sang But the satyr never stirred—Only…
You bound strong sandals on my feet, You gave me bread and wine,And sent me under sun and stars, For all the world was mine. Oh, take the sandals off…
I am not yours, not lost in you, Not lost, although I long to beLost as a candle lit at noon, Lost as a snowflake in the sea. You love…
When April bends above me And finds me fast asleep,Dust need not keep the secret A live heart died to keep. When April tells the thrushes, The meadow-larks will know,And…
When I am dead and over me bright AprilShakes out her rain-drenched hair,Though you shall lean above me broken-hearted,I shall not care. I shall have peace, as leafy trees are…
I would live in your love as the sea-grasses live in the sea,Borne up by each wave as it passes, drawn down by each wave that recedes;I would empty my…
Hibiscus flowers are cups of fire, (Love me, my lover, life will not stay)The bright poinsettia shakes in the wind, A scarlet leaf is blowing away. A lizard lifts his…
We stood in the shrill electric light, Dumb and sick in the whirling dinWe who had all of love to say And a single second to say it in. “Good-by!”…
The darkened street was muffled with the snow, The falling flakes had made your shoulders white, And when we found a shelter from the nightIts glamor fell upon us like…
Fields beneath a quilt of snowFrom which the rocks and stubble sleep,And in the west a shy white starThat shivers as it wakes from deep. The restless rumble of the…
It is not a word spoken, Few words are said;Nor even a look of the eyes Nor a bend of the head,But only a hush of the heart That has…
It will not change now After so many years;Life has not broken it With parting or tears;Death will not alter it, It will live onIn all my songs for you…
If I should see your eyes again, I know how far their look would go—Back to a morning in the park With sapphire shadows on the snow. Or back to…