Poems by Anna Katherine Green

Darling, why this dainty glow
Shifting on your cheeks of snow?
Why this look of summer skies
...

And now soft night hath ta'en her seat on high,
Outbreathing balmy peace o'er all the land;
S...

Play on! Play on! As softly glides
The low refrain, I seem, I seem
To float, to float on gol...

When first I saw him, I but saw
The shadow on his brow,
But, seeing that, forgot all else
...

For beauty such as hers is like a breath
Of distant music stealing through the hush
Of fragrant...

They who see her call her fair;
Say her smile pleases; that her voice is soft;
Her cheek the ...

It was a deadly blow! A blow like that
Which swooping unawares from out of the night
Dashes a m...

Ah, what is life!
'T is but a passing touch upon the world;
A print upon the beaches of the e...

They led him forth. The morning sun
Was shining wide o'er field and rill;
The glory of a day b...

Dark 'gainst the deepening skies,
Frosty with stars,
See I the bars
Of a weird cross arise. ...

I met thee, dear, and loved thee--yet we part,
Thou on thine unknown way and I on mine,
Ere...

Full many a vessel threads the gates of morn,
With spreading sails and gold upon its prow,
Th...

He found her pacing o'er the sunlit lawn,
Lost in a dream that brought the fitful blood
In tre...

Not the wind
But the soft sunshine best constrains the bud
To ope its delicate leaves. Of all t...

She thinks she is pretty--look there!
How she smiles in his face through her hair,
With a glea...