Stanza from an Early Poem

More poems by Christopher Pearse Cranch

• The Bobolinks

  When nature had made all her birds,
  With no more cares to think on,
  She gave a rippling laugh, and out …

• Thought

  Thought is deeper than all speech,
  Feeling deeper than all thought;
  Souls to souls can never teach …

• Compensation

  Tears wash away the atoms in the eye
  That smarted for a day;
  Rain-clouds that spoiled the splendors of the sky …

• The Pines and the Sea

  Beyond the low marsh-meadows and the beach,
  Seen through the hoary trunks of windy pines,
  The long blue level of the ocean shines. …

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