ONLY YOUR NAME
Sometimes I wake from sleep
Only your name drawing across my lips
In creeping wind from unlit space,
No star sparks flickering on that wind,
No signal tree top touched with racing light,
No lantern-memory hung to show the way;
Only a pathless name,
Dark, terrible, meaningless because most near!
And yet I never knew you,—
Only your name and pain!
REPETENDS
In the still woods I find your eyes,
I hear your voice once more
And the far-singing hermit thrush
Beyond our northern door.
In the still woods pale repetends
I find of death and grief
In fallen nest and perished bee
And sepulchre of leaf.
TOO LATE
It is too long, too long!
My heart grows old with grieving
For the touch of you.