Lanterns and Lamps
My parents carried light with them, for they Lived in days when people made their own Or did without. The lantern’s frosty ray, When Dad came late form milking, always shone As it a star were coming home to us, And if I called a midnight, goblin-harried, The shadows fled and night grew luminous Before […]
Halfway Up the Sky
That hilltop spoiled me for a smaller view. I measure with uncompromising eye All later landscapes by the one I knew Before I knew that landscapes could deny The ampleness of meadowland and wood Sweeping to distant mountains with rhythmic grace So that within a single glance I could Encompass all varieties of space. Oh, […]
Song for April
If hearts could break in April, I think that mine would now; But no hearts break in April, When bloom is on the bough. The whole world laughs in April, And any heats that break, May only break for loveliness’ And apple blossoms’ sake. No hearts break for sorrow When April’s on the hill. Oh, […]