Book: The Quiet Singer and Other Poems 1908

• The Quiet Singer

  He had been singing—but I had not heard his voice;
  He had been weaving lovely dreams of song

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• Eluded

  Deep in the night I heard
  The rain's mysterious word.

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• A Distant Spring

  I who love the Spring so well
  Shall be sleeping, some glad day,

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• The Silences

  I left the throbbing city's thundering mart
  For the great patience that the hills impart,

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• August In The City

  The brooding hours, through the dull afternoon,
  Pause, while a torrid sun flames in the sky.

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• The Footfarer

  Now that Spring is in the land,
  Now that April wakes the wood,

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• The Miracle

  That in your absence I can feel this thrill
  Pulsing my inmost soul; that I can know

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• A Mother

  It rained all day the day she died,
  And yet she thought it sweet and fair;

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• A Rose Whispers

  I am the flower within her garden-close
  She cast aside;

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• Awaited

  Although I dare to say
  My heart untarnished is from day to day,

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• Understanding

  Flash of steel and crash of drum--
  Love that way has never come.

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• The Depth of Love

  Because he brought no tears to her dear grave,
  Many and many there were

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• Unanswered

  How shall I know her, God, in that great world,
  After the grief of this is past and gone?

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• Surrender

  So hard I strove to crowd you from my heart,
  You who once loved, but love me now no more;

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• Rain On The Roof

  Loud on my roof the regiments of rain
  March with their old insistence, and I hear

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• The House Of The Heart

  I have made empty all my heart for you!
  I have shut out the mad noise of the world,

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• Remote

  Somewhere, perchance, there is a love
  That one day I may gain;

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• The Gladness of Spring

  When Spring, with blossom-haunted lanes,
  With sudden gusts of rippling rains,

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• A Sunset

  Far in the gold-embroidered west
  The round and red sun lay,

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• Estrangement

  It was so hard to say good-bye,
  To drift apart from you;

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• Death At Morning

  She died when dawn was sweeping o'er the land,
  When morning-glories lit the gleaming wall;

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• Renewal

  April, when I heard
  Your lyrical low word,

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• Selfishness

  There is so much that you can give to me--
  I cannot bring you anything at all,

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• The Song of City Traffic

  I have heard the roar and clamor through the city's crowded ways
  Of the never-ending pageant moving down the busy days--

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• A Ballad Of The Nativity

  Now it was Mary dreamed this dream,
  Ere yet her child was born

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• Aere Perennius

  As long as the stars of God
  Hang steadfast in the sky,

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• Remembrance

  Love was with me yesterday--
  In the dusk she crept away;

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• The Great and Silent Things

  How silently the years in long procession,
  Come gliding down the corridors of Time to us!

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• Haunted

  There came a whisper in the night,
  A little cry across the years;

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• Villanelle

  The lilies whisper in the park,
  Pale watchers in the heavy night,

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• I Count The Days

  I count the days, beloved; but not those
  When you are absent, though my heart well knows

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• Fulfilment

  This was my dream in May--to have one bloom,
  Fragrant with apple-scent and Springtide rain,

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• Resurrection

  When one had gone away
  To join the quiet dead,

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• The Poet

  Back of his splendid song, O think of the songs unsung!
  Back of his painted dreams, the dreams that he never reveals!

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• The Flame

  O moth, that yearns for me,
  The whole world pities thee,

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• The Mosques

  There was a flower in ancient Fez
  That (so the glowing legend says)

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• In The Meadows Of The Sky

  When the great sower, Night,
  Lets down his sable bars,

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• The Woman's Way

  There are things, I know, that are sad and strange,
  As the world swings round in the old-time way;

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• In The Night

  I heard the football of the hail;
  The armies of the sky

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• Hope

  The weariest watch must sometime end,
  The dreariest Winter must one day close,

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• Love of Beauty

  Who loves all beauty loves beyond that we see;
  The gods give him a vision doubly blest;

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• The Procession

  The gray year drifted out
  As a tired love might go,

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• Till Eulenspiegel

  Eulenspiegel, merry lad,
  What a laughing life you had!

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• Love and Time

  I said, "Love laughs at Time," before I knew
  The perfect joy of wholly loving you;

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• An Autumn Leaf

  Upon my parchment, sadly old,
  The record lives of Summer's gold;

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• One Moment of Doubt

  Suppose you should forget,
  After our hope and tears,

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• Parting

  Leave me some fragment of our love,
  Some remnant of our bliss,

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• The Room

  Now that my heart is empty,
  Empty of you,

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• After Drought

  There came an army from the sky,
  And surged across the parched plain;

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• Indian Summer

  When Eve grew old,
  How many a time she must have dreamed and dreamed

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• Preparation

  How long the violets 'neath the snow
  Toiled ere they breathed the Spring!

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• Certainty

  She knew that Love was dying--not so much
  When Love's dear eyes were closed and blind to her,

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• The Friends

  Share not thy joy with me, O friend the best,
  Thou may'st forget me then--I shall not care;

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• A Winter Dream

  The host of flakes that float thro' leafless trees
  When pale December reigns in Autumn's stead,

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• September

  Now at the grave of summer stands
  A priest, in purple vestments stoled,

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• The Good Queen

  Pale ruler of the heavens, with lavish hands,
  The spendthrift Moon arose,

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• Unhappiness

  High on the hills, the miser, Autumn sits,
  Hoarding his wondrous wealth of treasured gold;

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• Care

  She leaves upon our brows her written sign,
  Where all may read, inscribed with perfect art;

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• The Promise

  She said to him, "Unless, when I am dead
  From out the green sod of my lowly grave

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• City Children

  Pale flowers are you, that scarce have known the sun!
  Your little faces like sad blossoms seem,

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• After Reading Keats

  Down his great corridors of sumptuous sound
  Today I wandered once again. Each word

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• A Broken Friendship

  If this be friendship--that one broken hour
  (O fragile link in all the loving years!)

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• Fifth Avenue At Night

  Like moonstones drooping from a fair queen's ears
  The pale lights seem--

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• Broadway

  Here surge the ceaseless caravans,
  Here throbs the city's heart,

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• Downtown

  The sun has gone, and from the ferryboat
  That like a golden worm crawls through the night,

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• New Buildings

  The turrets leap higher and higher,
  And the little old homes go down;

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• The Lights

  Ten thousand jewels flash out
  When the darkness of night appears;

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• To A Hurdy-Gurdy

  Playing on Sixth Avenue
  Here's to you, brave Hurdy-gurdy,

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• Traffic

  Hoof-beats thundering on the paves,
  Wagons crashing by.

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• The Voices

  I heard the voice of the city,
  Calling again and again,

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• Next Door

  We saw the tapers burn
  In the home so close to ours;

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• The Parks

  There are green islands in the city sea,
  Where all day long, the endless, passionate waves

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• A City Sunset

  Across the roof-tops of the town
  I saw the flaming sun go down;

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• A Baghdad Lover

  (Being Certain Fragments from Scheherazade's Songs in "The Thousand and One Nights")
  O Queen of Beauty, who hast conquered kings,

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• A Lover in Damascus

  Far, far across the desert sands,
  I hear the camel-bells;

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• Certain Fragments from the Arabic

  You who are wise today,
  What of your knowledge when life's little play

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• By me, right now

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