"Only in Sleep" Only in sleep I see their faces, Children I played with when I was a child, Louise comes back with her brown hair braided, A...
Redbirds Redbirds, redbirds, Long and long ago, What a honey-call you had In hills I used to know; Redbud, buckberry, Wild plum-tree And proud river s...
Sunset: St. Louis Hushed in the smoky haze of summer sunset, When I came home again from far-off places, How many times I saw my western city Dream by...
The Coin Into my heart's treasury I slipped a coin That time cannot take Nor a thief purloin, —— Oh better than the minting Of a gold-...
The Voice Atoms as old as stars, Mutation on mutation, Millions and millions of cells Dividing yet still the same, From air and changing earth, From a...
Day and Night In Warsaw in Poland Half the world away, The one I love best of all Thought of me to-day; I know, for I went Winged as a bird, In the wi...
Compensation I should be glad of loneliness And hours that go on broken wings, A thirsty body, a tired heart And the unchanging ache of things, If I c...
I Remembered There never was a mood of mine, Gay or heart-broken, luminous or dull, But you could ease me of its fever And give it back to me more bea...
"Oh You Are Coming" Oh you are coming, coming, coming, How will hungry Time put by the hours till then? —— But why does it anger...
The Return He has come, he is here, My love has come home, The minutes are lighter Than flying foam, The hours are like dancers On gold-slippered feet...