Edward Lucas White

  • He cried aloud to God: “The men below
    Are happy, for I see them come and go,
    Parents and mates and friends, paired, clothed with love;
    They heed not, see not, need not me above,—
    I am alone here. Grant me love and peace,
    Or, if not them, grant me at least...

  • They had brought in such sheafs of hair,
    And flung them all about us there
    In the loud noonday’s heat and glare:
    Gold tresses, far too fine to wind,
    And brown, with copper curls entwined,
    And black coils, black as all my mind.

    In the low,...