The Queen Heart of my heart, we can not die! Tells us nothing can cease to be; One, we are one with a song to-day, One with the clover that scents the wold, I One with the Unknown, far away, One with the stars, when earth grows old. Heart of my heart, we are one with the wind, 649 One with the clouds that are whirled o'er the lea, One in many, O broken and blind, One as the waves are at one with the sea! Ay! when life seems scattered apart, One, we are one, O heart of my heart, Alfred Noyes (1880 THE QUEEN He loves not well whose love is bold! He keeps his state,-keep thou in thine, That falls from love's own guiding star; And so my passion shall not die; But all my life shall reach its hands Thy eyes shall be the heavenly lights, But thou thyself shall come not down Queen of my heart and queen of love! And I a monarch-at thy feet! William Winter [1836 A LOVER'S ENVY I ENVY every flower that blows And every bird that sings to her, I envy every poet's rhyme That moves her heart at eventime, And every tree that wears for her I envy every Southern night That paves her path with moonbeams white, And in their shadow weaves for her I envy none whose love requires Of her a gift, a task that tires: I only long to live to her, I only ask to give to her All that her heart desires. My Heart Shall Be Thy Garden" 651 STAR SONG WHEN Sunset flows into golden glows And the breath of the night is new, O tear-wet eye that scans the sky And when you wake at the morning's break To rival rose and dew, The star that stays till the leaping rays That is my thought of you. Ay, though by day they seem away Beyond or cloud or blue, From dawn to night unquenched their light As are my thoughts of you. Robert Underwood Johnson [1853 "MY HEART SHALL BE THY GARDEN" My heart shall be thy garden. Come, my own, Into thy garden; thine be happy hours Up to the sky inclosed, with all its showers. But ah, the birds, the birds! Who shall build bowers To keep these thine? O friend, the birds have flown. For as these come and go, and quit our pine To follow the sweet season, or, new-comers, My heart has thoughts, which, though thine eyes hold mine, With wings that dip beyond the silver seas. Alice Meynell [1853 AT NIGHT HOME, home from the horizon far and clear, Flocks of the memories of the day draw near The dovecote doors of sleep. Oh which are they that come through sweetest light Of all these homing birds? Which with the straightest and the swiftest flight? Your words to me, your words! Alice Meynell [1853 SONG SONG is so old, Love is so new Let me be still And kneel to you. Let me be still And breathe no word, Save what my warm blood Sings unheard. Let my warm blood Sing low of you- Song is so fair, Love is so new! Hermann Hagedorn [18 "TWENTY YEARS HENCE" TWENTY years hence my eyes may grow Still yours from others they shall know The Last Word Twenty years hence though it may hap In a cool cell where thunder-clap There breathe but o'er my arch of grass A not too sadly sighed Alas, And I shall catch, ere you can pass, That winged word. 653 Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864] THE LAST WORD WHEN I have folded up this tent And yet whatever house I find Beneath the grass or snow Will ne'er be tenantless of love Or lack the face I know. O lips-wild roses wet with rain! I lie, the one inhabitant, My hands across my breast, To each frail root beneath the ground I shall impart a fiercer sap- And growing things will lean to me |