Josephine Preston Peabody Desire Poems

• 1. The Prophet
  All day long he kept the sheep:--
  Far and early, from the crowd,
  On the hills from steep to steep,
  Where the silence cried aloud;
  ...
• 2. Canticle Of The Babe
  I
  
  Over the broken world, the dark gone by,
  Horror of outcast darkness torn with wars;
  ...
• 3. The Feaster
  Oh, who will hush that cry outside the doors,
  While we are glad within?
  Go forth, go forth, all you my servitors;
  (And gather close, my kin.)
  ...
• 4. Alison's Mother To The Brook
  Brook, of the listening grass,
  Brook of the sun-fleckt wings,
  Brook of the same wild way and flickering spell!
  Must you begone? Will you forever pass,
  ...
• 5. Vestal Flame
  Light, light,--the last:
  Till the night be done,
  Keep the watch for stars and sun, and eyelids over-cast.
  
  ...
• 6. The Foundling
  Beautiful Mother, I have toiled all day;
  And I am wearied. And the day is done.
  Now, while the wild brooks run
  Soft by the furrows--fading, gold to gray,
  ...
• 7. Gladness
  Unto my Gladness then I cried:
  'I will not be denied!
  Answer me now; and tell me why
  Thou dost not fall, as a broken star
  ...
• 8. The Trees
  I
  
  Now, in the thousandth year,
  When April's near,
  ...
• 9. The Nightingale Unheard
  Yes, Nightingale, through all the summer-time
  We followed on, from moon to golden moon;
  From where Salerno day-dreams in the noon,
  And the far rose of Pæstum once did climb.
  ...

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