6 quotes
Oh, beauty, are you not enough?
Why am I crying after love?
Rivers to the Sea (1915)
I am the pool of gold
When sunset burns and dies,—
You are my deepening skies,
Give me your stars to hold.
Rivers to the Sea (1915)
How should they know that Sappho lived and died
Faithful to love, not faithful to the lover,
Never transfused and lost in what she loved,
Never so wholly loving nor at peace.
Rivers to the Sea (1915)
But oh, to him I loved
Who loved me not at all,
I owe the little open gate
That led thru heaven's wall.
Rivers to the Sea (1915)
I lift my heart as spring lifts up
A yellow daisy to the rain;
My heart will be a lovely cup
Altho' it holds but pain.
For I shall learn from flower and leaf
That color every drop they hold,
To change the lifeless wine of grief
To living gold.
Rivers to the Sea (1915)
Oh, is it not enough to be
Here with this beauty over me?
My throat should ache with praise, and I
Should kneel in joy beneath the sky.
Oh, beauty are you not enough?
Rivers to the Sea (1915)