Richard Realf

Poems (4)

• A Holy Nation

  Let Liberty run onward with the years, / And circle with the seasons; let her break …

• An Old Man's Idyl

  By the waters of Life we sat together, / Hand in hand in the golden days …

• Indirection

  Fair are the flowers and the children, but their subtle suggestion is fairer; / Rare is the roseburst of dawn, but the secret that clasps it is rarer; …

• The Word

  O earth! thou hast not any wind that blows / Which is not music; every weed of thine …