Rivers To The Sea

• (..) Hold me on your heart as the brave sea holds the foam. Take me far away to the hills that hide your home. Peace shall thatch the roof and love shall latch the door.
• (..) Before you kissed me, only winds of heaven had kissed me and the tenderness of rain. Now you have come, how can I care for kisses like theirs again?
• (..) I am my love’s and he is mine forever, sealed with a seal and safe forevermore. Think you that I could let a beggar enter, where a king stood before?
• (..) Her eyes were strangely like my eyes, tho’ love had never made them shine. Her body was a thing grown thin, hungry for love that never came. Her soul was frozen in the dark, unwarmed forever by love’s flame. I felt my lover look at her and then turn suddenly to me. His eyes were magic to defy, the woman I shall never be.
• (..) Oh are you asleep or lying awake, my lover? Open your dreams to my love and your heart to my words. I send you my thoughts. The air between us is laden. My thoughts fly in at your window, a flock of wild birds.
• (..) The years went by and never knew that each one brought me nearer you. Their path was narrow and apart, and yet it led me to your heart.
• (..) When sunset burns and dies, you are my deepening skies. Give me your stars to hold.
• (..) Come with arms outstretched to take me. Come with lips pursed up to cling.
• (..) I am the still rain falling, too tired for singing mirth.
• (..) I love. I am loved. He is mine. Now at last I can die!
• (..) We who had all of love to say and a single second to say it in. "Good-by!" "Good-by!" > you turned to go. I felt the train’s slow heavy start. You thought to see me cry, but oh, my tears were hidden in my heart.
• (..) Love me with your whole heart or give no love to me. Half-love is a poor thing, neither bond nor free. You must love me gladly. Soul and body too. Or else find a new love and good-by to you.
• (..) And I shall be more silent and cold-hearted than you are now.
• (..) They never saw my lover’s face. They only know our love was brief. Wearing awhile a windy grace and passing like an autumn leaf.
• (..) Oh I have sown my love so wide. That he will find it everywhere. It will awake him in the night, it will enfold him in the air. I set my shadow in his sight and I have winged it with desire. That it may be a cloud by day and in the night a shaft of fire.
• (..) It is enough to feel his love, blow by like music over me.
• (..) I am free of love and I listen to music lightly. But if he returned. If he should look at me deeply. I should awake. I should awake and remember I am my lover’s.
• (..) There is no magic when we meet. We speak as other people do. You work no miracle for me, nor I for you. You were the wind and I the sea.
• (..) Oh let me love with all my strength. Careless if I am loved again.
• (..) And suddenly two stars fell down, two falling arrows made of light. Six years ago this very night. I saw them fall and wondered why the angel dropped them from the sky. But when I saw your eyes I knew the angel sent the stars to you.
• (..) What do I owe to you who loved me deep and long? You never gave my spirit wings or gave my heart a song. But oh, to him I loved, who loved me not at all, I owe the little open gate that led thru heaven’s wall.
• (..) I Gave my first love laughter. I gave my second tears. I gave my third love silence thru all the years. My first love gave me singing. My second eyes to see. But oh, it was my third love, who gave my soul to me.
• (..) Forget me for a month, a year, but oh, beloved, think of me when unexpected beauty burns, like sudden sunlight on the sea.