Margaret Steele Anderson Hear Poems

• 1. The Trees
  When on the spring's enchanting blue
  You trace your slender leaves and few,
  Then do I wish myself re-born
  To lands of hope, to lands of morn.
  ...
• 2. The Lesser Beauty
  You are the first wild violet of the year;
  Young grass you are, and apple-bloom, and spray
  Of honeysuckle; you are dawn of day.
  And the first snow-fall! It is you I hear
  ...
• 3. The Shepherd
  (On a fragment by De Bussy.)
  
  Thy slender form I think I see
  On winter hills of Tuscany,
  ...
• 4. The Victor
  "Thou hast not lived! No aim of earth
  Thy body serves, nor home nor birth;
  No children's eyes look up to thee
  To solace thy mortality."
  ...
• 5. In The Image Of God
  The falling of a leaf upon thy way,
  The flutter of a bird along thy sky,
  Thou God, to whom the ages are a day,
  Ev'n such, alas! oh, ev'n such am I!
  ...
• 6. The Dream
  They sing the race, the song is wildly sweet;
  But thou, my harp, oh thou shalt sing the goal!
  The distant goal, that draws the bleeding feet
  And lights the brow and lifts the fainting soul!
  ...
• 7. The Prayer Of The Weak
  Lord of all strength, behold, I am but frail!
  Lord of all harvest, few the grapes and pale
  Allotted for my wine-press! Thou, Lord,
  Who boldest in thy gift the tempered sword.
  ...
• 8. Madison Cawein
  The wind makes moan, the water runneth chill;
  I hear the nymphs go crying through the brake;
  And roaming mournfully from hill to hill
  The maenads all are silent for his sake!
  ...
• 9. A Greek Lyrist Sings Of Apollo
  Ah, it was he I heard at early dawn,
  From the high hilltop and the dew-wet hollow,
  While I was yet as tender as a fawn.
  Calling me, "Follow!"
  ...

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