Lizette Woodworth Reese Poems

When I consider Life and its few years --
A wisp of fog betwixt us and the sun;
A call to battle, and the battle done
Ere the last echo dies within our ears;
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The spicewood burns along the gray, spent sky,
In moist unchimneyed places, in a wind,
That whips it all before, and all behind,
Into one thick, rude flame, now low, now high,
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Wild rockets blew along the lane;
The tall white gentians too were there;
The mullein stalks were brave again;
Of blossoms was the bramble bare;
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A rhyme of good Death's inn!
   My love came to that door;
And she had need of many things,
   The way had been so sore.
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Oh, gray and tender is the rain,
That drips, drips on the pane!
A hundred things come in the door,
The scent of herbs, the thought of yore.
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Love came back at fall o' dew,
Playing his old part;
But I had a word or two
That would break his heart.
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Such special sweetness was about
   That day God sent you here,
I knew the lavender was out,
   And it was mid of year.
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The little Jesus came to town;
The wind blew up, the wind blew down;
Out in the street the wind was bold;
Now who would house Him from the cold?
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Stumble to silence, all you uneasy things,
That pack the day with bluster and with fret.
For here is music at each window set;
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Dark, thinned, beside the wall of stone,
The box dripped in the air;
Its odor through my house was blown
Into the chamber there.
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