Anne Reeve Aldrich

Poems (10)

• A Crowned Poet

  In thy coach of state / Pass, O King, along: …

• A Little Parable

  I Made the cross myself whose weight / Was later laid on me. …

• A Song about Singing

  O Nightingale, the poet’s bird, / A kinsman dear thou art, …

• April-and Dying

  Green blood fresh pulsing through the trees, / Blacks buds, that sun and shower distend; …

• Death at Daybreak

  I Shall go out when the light comes in— / There lie my cast-off form and face; …

• Fraternity

  I Ask not how thy suffering came, / Or if by sin, or if by shame, …

• In November

  Brown earth-line meets gray heaven, / And all the land looks sad; …

• Love's Change

  I Went to dig a grave for Love, / But the earth was so stiff and cold …

• Music of Hungary

  My body answers you, my blood / Leaps at your maddening, piercing call …

• The Eternal Justice

  Thank God that shall judge my soul, not man! / I marvel when they say, …