- 1. Talking In Their Sleep
“You think I am dead,”
The apple tree said,
“Because I have never a leaf to show-
Because I stoop,
...
- 2. Winter Sleep
I know it must be winter (though I sleep)-
I know it must be winter, for I dream
I dip my bare feet in the running stream,
And flowers are many, and the grass grows deep.
...
- 3. The Inverted Torch
Threading a darksome passage all alone,
The taper's flame, by envious current blown,
Crouched low, and eddied round, as in affright,
So challenged by the vast and hostile night,
...
- 4. Frost To-night
Apple-green west and an orange bar,
And the crystal eye of a lone, one star . . .
And, “Child, take the shears and cut what you will,
Frost to-night-so clear and dead-still.”
...
by Edith M. Thomas
