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THE GOLDEN THRESHOLD(2)
2023-12-06WANDERING SINGERS (Written to one of their Tunes) Where the voice of the wind calls our wandering feet, Through echoing forest and echoing street, Wit...
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THE GOLDEN THRESHOLD(3)
2023-12-06INDIAN WEAVERS Weavers, weaving at break of day, Why do you weave a garment so gay? . . . Blue as the wing of a halcyon wild, We weave the robes of a ...
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THE GOLDEN THRESHOLD(4)
2023-12-06COROMANDEL FISHERS Rise, brothers, rise, the wakening skies pray to the morning light, The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn like a child that ...
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THE GOLDEN THRESHOLD(5)
2023-12-06THE SNAKE-CHARMER Whither dost thou hide from the magic of my flute-call? In what moonlight-tangled meshes of perfume, Where the clustering keovas gua...
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THE GOLDEN THRESHOLD(6)
2023-12-06CORN-GRINDERS O LITTLE MOUSE, WHY DOST THOU CRY WHILE MERRY STARS LAUGH IN THE SKY? Alas! alas! my lord is dead! Ah, who will ease my bitter pain? He ...
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THE GOLDEN THRESHOLD(7)
2023-12-06VILLAGE-SONG Honey, child, honey, child, whither are you going? Would you cast your jewels all to the breezes blowing? Would you leave the mother who ...
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THE GOLDEN THRESHOLD(8)
2023-12-06IN PRAISE OF HENNA A kokila called from a henna-spray: LIRA! LIREE! LIRA! LIREE! Hasten, maidens, hasten away To gather the leaves of the henna-tree. ...
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THE GOLDEN THRESHOLD(9)
2023-12-06Men's Voices Lord of the lotus, lord of the harvest, Bright and munificent lord of the morn! Thine is the bounty that prospered our sowing, Thine ...
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THE GOLDEN THRESHOLD(10)
2023-12-06Women's Voices Queen of the gourd-flower, queen of the harvest, Sweet and omnipotent mother, O Earth! Thine is the plentiful bosom that feeds us, ...
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Helen of Troy And Other Poems(1)
2023-12-06Song You bound strong sandals on my feet,You gave me bread and wine, And bade me out, 'neath sun and stars,For all the world was mine. Oh take the...