John Hall Wheelock

Poems (6)

• Alone

  Ah, never in all my life / Have I ever fled away …

• Like Music

  Your body’s motion is like music; / Her stride ecstatical and bright …

• Nirvana

  Sleep on—i lie at heaven’s high oriels, / Over the stars that murmur as they go …

• Sunday Evening in the Common

  Look—on the topmost branches of the world / The blossoms of the myriad stars are thick; …

• The Thunder-Shower

  The lightning flashed, and lifted / The lids of heaven apart, …

• Triumph of the Singer

  I shake my hair in the wind of morning / For the joy within me that knows no bounds. …