Ina D. Coolbrith Poems

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81.
With The Laurel

To Edmund Clarence Stedman on his seventieth birthday, October 8,1903

Who wears this crown-greater than kings may wear-
Is monarch of a kingdom, once possessed,
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82.
Withheld

Therein is sunlight, and sweet sound:
Cool flow of waters, musical,
Soft stir of insect-wings, and fall
Of blossom-snow upon the ground.
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83.
A Good-By

Good-By!
Under whatever sky
Thy pathway be,
Near or afar,
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84.
With A Wreath Of Laurel

O winds, that ripple the long grass,
O winds, that kiss the jeweled sea,
Grow still and lingering as you pass,
About this laurel-tree!
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85.
Sufficient

Citron, pomegranate, apricot, and peach;
Flutter of apple-blows, whiter than the snow:
Filling the silence with their leafy speech,
Budding and blossoming down row after row.
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86.
Summer Past

Now the summer all is over!
We have wandered through the clover,
We have plucked in wood and lea
Blue-bell and anemone.
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87.
Summons

O long, swinging bells of pomegranate!
O orange-buds, falling as snow!
O singing of swallow and linnet-
Singing high in the leaves, singing low-
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88.
They Shall Be Satisfied

Once, in a dream, I saw the Saviour’s face!
That Face within its aureole of Light,
Star, moon and sun, forever, to all night-
And in its glance such tenderness and grace,
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89.
To A New Beatrice

(B. G.: Born January 28,1895)

Robed as with petals of the red rose-queen,
Unfolding in the dawn’s awakening rays,
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90.
Sahara

I
Leagues, leagues of blinding sand
On either hand;
A pitiless, brazen sea
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