Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall Poems

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1.
Daisy Time

See, the grass is full of stars,
Fallen in their brightness;
Hearts they have of shining gold,
Rays of shining whiteness.
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2.
Marching Men

Under the level winter sky
I saw a thousand Christs go by.
They sang an idle song and free
As they went up to calvary.
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3.
Bartimeus Grown Old

YEA, I am he that dwelt beside this tomb.
I was a child. God smote me from the sun.
A little while, I had forgot to run
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4.
Mary Tired

Through the starred Judean night
She went, in travail of the Light,
With the earliest hush she saw
God beside her in the straw.
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5.
I Shall Not Go With Pain

I shall not go with pain
Whether you hold me, whether you forget
My little loss and my immortal gain.
O flower unseen, O fountain sealed apart!
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6.
Duna

WHEN I was a little lad
With folly on my lips,
Fain was I for journeying
All the seas in ships.
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7.
Adam And Eve

When the first dark had fallen around them
And the leaves were weary of praise,
In the clear silence Beauty found them
And shewed them all her ways.
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8.
Youth’s End

I HAVE held my life too high,
Spring and harvest, love and laughter, smile and sigh.
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9.
A Child’s Song

WHEN the Child played in Galilee,
He had no wine-clear maple leaves,
No west winds singing of the sea
Over the frosted sheaves;
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10.
The Green Month

WHAT of all the colours shall I bring you for your fairing,
Fit to lay your fingers on, fine enough for you ?–
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