Laughing her lovers awake.

(Oh, little closed house, so cold and still,

Will she find you for old joy's sake,

And leave one primrose beside your door,

Lest the heart of your garden break?)


THE BROKEN LUTE

Good-bye, my song—I, who found words for sorrow,

Offer my joy to-day a useless lute.

In the deep night I sang me of the morrow;