Lizette Woodworth Reese Grass Poems

• 1. Thomas à? Kempis
  Brother of mine, good monk with cowlëd head,
  Walled from that world which thou hast long since fled,
  And pacing thy green close beyond the sea,
  I send my heart to thee.
  ...
• 2. Trust
  I am Thy grass, O Lord!
  I grow up sweet and tall
  But for a day, beneath Thy sword
  To lie at evenfall.
  ...
• 3. Thomas à Kempis
  Brother of mine, good monk with cowlëd head,
  Walled from that world which thou hast long since fled,
  And pacing thy green close beyond the sea,
  I send my heart to thee.
  ...
• 4. That Day You Came
  Such special sweetness was about
  That day God sent you here,
  I knew the lavender was out,
  And it was mid of year.
  ...
• 5. Tears
  When I consider Life and its few years-
  A wisp of fog betwixt us and the sun;
  A call to battle, and the battle done
  Ere the last echo dies within our ears;
  ...
• 6. Spicewood
  The spicewood burns along the gray, spent sky,
  In moist unchimneyed places, in a wind,
  That whips it all before, and all behind,
  Into one thick, rude flame, now low, now high,
  ...
• 7. Oh, Gray And Tender Is The Rain
  Oh, gray and tender is the rain,
  That drips, drips on the pane!
  A hundred things come in the door,
  The scent of herbs, the thought of yore.
  ...
• 8. Daffodils
  Fathered by March, the daffodils are here.
  First, all the air grew keen with yesterday,
  And once a thrush from out some hollow gray
  On a field's edge, where whitening stalks made cheer,
  ...
• 9. A Haunting Memory
  Wild rockets blew along the lane;
  The tall white gentians too were there;
  The mullein stalks were brave again;
  Of blossoms was the bramble bare;
  ...

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