Poems by Anna Katherine Green

A little month ago, and in my ear
I heard your low "I love" strike warm and clear,
And musing...

Youth has needs, I know,
And headlong yearnings like the mountain streams
That rush adown the...

What do the roses say in their dreams?
Let us hark and hear! Let us hark and hear!
Do they echo...

O the toils of life!
How small they seem when love's resistless tide
Sweeps brightly o'er them!...

If I had known whose face I'd see
Above the hedge, beside the rose;
If I had known whose voic...

I FROM HIM TO HER Sweet, when I gave my troth to you
I loved you--or imagined so;
But...

Hung thick with jets of burning gold, the sky
Crowns with its glorious dome the sleeping earth,...

Have you listened to the singing
Of the meadow-grasses springing?
Heard the shadows, whisperin...

A zephyr moves the maple-trees,
And straightway o'er the grass
The shadows of their branches s...

When in the solemn dusk you sit and think,
With face upturned to the enduring skies,
Of life ...

She held a secret in her inmost thought;
A secret which in shyly hiding, she
Revealed to all ...

Then this is death--
How strange, how strange! Another hour,
Another breath
Of joyous life, ...

Dost see yon orb of light that girt with power
Rides the still spaces of the firmament,
Queen-...

The sweetest hour in all love's wond'rous story,
When Hope first whispers of the coming glory. ...

The wave that floods the trembling shore,
And desolates the strand,
In ebbing leaves, 'mid f...