May Riley Smith

Poems (6)

• Departure

  Adieu, kind Life, though thou hast often been / Lavish of quip, and scant of courtesy, …

• In Prison

  God pity the wretched prisoners, / In their lonely cells to-day! …

• My Uninvited Guest

  One day there entered at my chamber door / A presence whose light footfall on the floor …

• Sometime

  Sometime, when all life’s lessons have been learned, / And sun and stars forevermore have set, …

• Tired Mothers

  A Little elbow leans upon your knee, / Your tired knee that has so much to bear; …

• “If we knew”

  Or, Blessings of To-day / IF we knew the woe and heart-ache …