I Have Loved Hours At Sea
I have loved hours at sea, gray cities,
The fragile secret of a flower,
Music, the making of a
That gave me heaven for an hour;
I have loved hours at sea, gray cities,
The fragile secret of a flower,
Music, the making of a
That gave me heaven for an hour;
Bring me the roses white and red,
And take the laurel leaves away;
Yea, wreathe the roses round my
That wearies 'neath the crown of bay
Child, child, love while you
The voice and the eyes and the soul of a man;
Never fear though it break your heart —Out of the wound new joy will start;
Only love proudly and gladly and well,
CE there is no escape, since at the
My body will be utterly destroyed,
This hand I love as I have loved a friend,
This body I tended, wept with and enjoyed;
I
VE been happy two weeks together,
My love is coming home to me,
Gold and silver is the
I feel the spring far off, far off, The faint, far scent of bud and leaf --Oh, how can spring take heart to come To a world in grief, Deep grief
The sun turns north, the days grow long, Later the evening star grows bright --How can the daylig...
Across the dimly lighted room
The violin drew wefts of sound,
Airily they wove and wound
And glimmered gold against the gloom
If I should see your eyes again,
I know how far their look would go —Back to a morning in the park With sapphire shadows on the snow
Or back to oak trees in the spring When you unloosed my hair and
The head that lay against your kne...
Two knights rode forth at early dawn A-seeking maids to wed,
Said one, "My lady must be fair,
With gold hair on her head
"Then spake the other knight-at-arms: "I care not for her face,
How many million Aprils
Before I ever
How white a cherry bough could be,
A bed of squills, how blue
I am not yours, not lost in you,
Not lost, although I long to
Lost as a candle lit at noon,
Lost as a snowflake in the sea
I sought among the drifting leaves,
The golden leaves that once were green,
To see if Love were hiding there And peeping out between
For thro' the silver showers of May And thro' the summer's heavy heat,