Sophie Margaret Hensley Poems

The full-orbed Paschal moon; dark shadows flung
On the brown Lenten earth; tall spectral trees
Stand in their huge and naked strength erect,
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'Pourquoi,' she breathed, then drooped her head,
(Pure snow-drifts to the sunset wed)
As all my weakness I confessed.
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My boat is still in the reedy cove
Where the rushes hinder its onward course,
For I care not now if we rest or move
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I aimless wandered thro' the woods, and flung
My idle limbs upon a soft brown bank,
Where, thickly strewn, the worn-out russet leaves
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There is no God? If one should stand at noon
Where the glow rests, and the warm sunlight plays,
Where earth is gladdened by the cordial rays
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The world may rage without,
Quiet is here;
Statesmen may toil and shout,
Cynics may sneer;
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The sky, grown dull through many waiting days,
Flashed into crimson with the sunrise charm,
So all my love, aroused to vague alarm,
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When summer comes, and when o'er hill and lea
The sun's strong wooing glow hath patiently
Shed o'er the earth long days his golden dower,
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When summer comes, and when o'er hill and lea
The sun's strong wooing glow hath patiently
Shed o'er the earth long days his golden dower,
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The world to-day is radiant, as I ne'er
Could picture it in wildest dreaming, when
For long, long hours I lay in flowery glen
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