Oh, I Have Music
You think me deaf? I heard a snowflake fall. I heard a rainbow singing; and the faint, Blue shadowed melody that twilight plays On spinet trees and I heard the quaint Elf music made by moonbeams on still waters, And heaven’s anthems as the stars appear; And once I heard a star . . .Oh, […]
Cause
Without the night We could not dream How beautifully A star may gleam. Without darkness We could not know How tenderly A moon may glow. And without death We could not guess How immortality May bless. –From the Greatest of These (written in 1942?)
To Be at Home
I am at home with winter I understand the thin Determined trees, and all the calm, Bare fields and I are kin. I am at home with winter, And I am glad to share The dull gray days of waiting, The cold, unfruitful air. All hearts must master silence Before they learn to sing. Must […]