Poems Author:Katharine Tynan Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ROSES The moon hid her face to-night, Veiled her in roses, Rose-leaves in brilliant flight From the sun's closes. Rose of a million leaves, How sh... more »e is scattered ! Like to earth's rose that grieves, Dewless, unwatered. Over the leaf-green sky Rose-leaves are drifting; Now the wind heaps them high, Now is a sifting. There in the midmost flare Dian, capricious, Draws the rose o'er her hair, Scented, delicious. There from the rosiest heaps Dian discloses Dimly her eyes and lips, Smiling through roses. THE OLD LOVE Out of my door I step into The country, all her scent and dew, Nor travel there by a hard road, Dusty and far from my abode. The country washes to my door Green miles on miles in soft uproar, The thunder of the woods, and then The backwash of green surf again. Beyond the feverfew and stocks, The guelder-rose and hollyhocks; Outside my trellised porch a tree Of lilac frames a sky for me. A stretch of primrose and pale green To hold the tender Hesper in; Hesper that by the moon makes pale Her silver keel and silver sail. The country silence wraps me quite, Silence and song and pure delight; The country beckons all the day Smiling, and but a step away. THE OLD LOVE This is that country seen across, How many a league of love and loss, Prayed for and longed for, and as far As fountains in the desert are. This is that country at my door, Whose fragrant airs run on before, And call me when the first birds stir In the green wood to walk with her. THE FOOTPATH WAY The winding road lies white and bare, Heavy in dust that takes the glare, The thirsty hedgerows and parched grass Dream of a time when no road was. Beyond, the fields are full in view; Heavy in herbage and in dew The great-eyed kine br...« less