Virginia Woodward Cloud

  • Out of the heart there flew a little singing bird,
      Past the dawn and the dew, where leaves of morning stirred,
    And the heart, which followed on, said: “Though the bird be flown
      Which sang in the dew and the dawn, the song is still my own.”

    Over the foot-worn...

  • All in the leafy darkness, when sleep had passed me by,
        I knew the surging of the sea—
        Though never wave were nigh.
    All in the leafy darkness, unbroken by a star,
        There came the clamorous call of day,
        While yet the day was far.
    All...

  • The past walks here, noiseless, unasked, alone;
    Knockers are silent, and beside each stone
    Grass peers, unharmed by lagging steps and slow
    That with the dark and dawn pass to and fro.
    The Past walks here, unseen forevermore,
    Save by some heart who, in her...

  • All day and all day, as I sit at my measureless turning,
        They come and they go,—
    The little ones down on the rocks,—and the sunlight is burning
        On vineyards below;
    All day and all day, as I sit at my stone and am ceaselessly grinding,
        The...