Mary Mapes Dodge

Poems (5)

• Once Before

  Once before, this self-same air / Passed me, though I know not where. …

• Shadow-Evidence

  Swift o’er the sunny grass, / I saw a shadow pass …

• Snowflakes

  Whenever a snowflake leaves the sky, / It turns and turns to say “Good-by! …

• The Stars

  They wait all day unseen by us, unfelt; / Patient they bide behind the day’s full glare; …

• The Two Mysteries

  We know not what it is, dear, this sleep so deep and still; / The folded hands, the awful calm, the cheek so pale and chill; …