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• The Apple-Tree

  I saw the archangels in my apple-tree last night,
  I saw them like great birds in the starlight—
  Purple and burning blue, crimson and shining white. …

  Nancy Campbell

• The Monkey

  I saw you hunched and shivering on the stones,
  The bleak wind piercing to your fragile bones,
  Your shabby scarlet all inadequate: …

  Nancy Campbell

• The Red Bridge

  The arches of the red bridge
  Are stronger than ever:
  The arches of the scarlet bridge …

  Skipwith Cannell

• The King

  Seven full-paunched eunuchs came to me,
  Bearing before them upon a silver shield
  The secrets of my enemy. …

  Skipwith Cannell

• The Palatine

  “have you been with the King to Rome,
  Brother, big brother?”
  “I’ve been there and I’ve come home. …

  Willa Sibert Cather

• Spanish Johnny

  The old West, the old time,
  The old wind singing through
  The red, red grass a thousand miles— …

  Willa Sibert Cather

• Polonius and the Ballad Singers

  A gaunt-built woman and her son-in-law—
  A broad-faced fellow, with such flesh as shows
  Nothing but easy nature—and his wife, …

  Padraic Colum

• The Sea Bird to the Wave

  On and on,
  O white brother!
  Thunder does not daunt thee! …

  Padraic Colum

• Old Men Complaining

  First old Man
  HE threw his crutched stick down: there came
  Into his face the anger flame, …

  Padraic Colum

• Refugees

  “mother, the poplars cross the moon;
  The road runs on, so white and far,
  We shall not reach the city soon: …

  Grace Hazard Conkling

• The Little Rose is Dust, My Dear

  The little rose is dust, my dear;
  The elfin wind is gone
  That sang a song of silver words …

  Grace Hazard Conkling

• O World

  O world that changes under my hand,
  O brown world, bitter and bright,
  And full of hidden recesses …

  Alice Corbin

• Two Voices

  There is a country full of wine
  And liquor of the sun,
  Where sap is running all the year, …

  Alice Corbin

• Love Me at Last

  Love me at last, or if you will not,
  Leave me;
  Hard words could never, as these half-words, …

  Alice Corbin

• Humoresque

  To some the fat gods
  Give money,
  To some love; …

  Alice Corbin

• One City Only

  One city only, of all I have lived in,
  And one house of that city, belong to me …
  I remember the mellow light of afternoon …

  Alice Corbin

• Apparitions

  I
  a thin gray shadow on the edge of thought
  Hiding its wounds: …

  Alice Corbin

• The Pool

  Do you remember the dark pool at Nîmes,
  The pool that had no bottom?
  Shadowed by Druids ere the Romans came— …

  Alice Corbin

• Music

  the ancient songs
  Pass deathward mournfully.
  R. A.

  Alice Corbin

• What Dim Arcadian Pastures

  What dim Arcadian pastures
  Have I known
  That suddenly, out of nothing, …

  Alice Corbin

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