Poems by Caroline Spencer

Gone! Slipped away so silently
While yet we deemed him all our own!
And he was with us yesterda...

Joy's the shyest bird
Mortal ever heard;
Listen rapt and silent while he sings;
Do not seek ...

When all the earth was quaking,
And seas in maddest roll,
And Heaven itself forsaking,
I fo...

O Ariel, tricksy and dainty,
You spirit of finest air,
That was given the first man Adam
Th...

A song for the season, my dear, my dear!
A song for the sunshiny weather!
And what does it ma...

Of old the gods were feasted
On music, mirth and wine;
But men that drank their nectar
Did n...

Though we climb fame's proudest height,
Though we sit on hills afar,
Where the thrones of tri...

I sit alone and watch the darkening years,
And all my heart grows dim with doubt and fear;
Ti...

O working-world! While rest is sweet,
And ease a welcome comer,
Only your blithest songs are ...

I hold your hand in mine, my darling, darling;
I look within your eyes;
I ask you idle ques...

The churchyard hath a noble tree,
The willow--the willow!
She droops her head so gracefully
T...

The earth is all in shadow,
The heavens alone are bright;
Deep after deep of splendor
Is bre...

It is Psyche that sits in her chamber,
With windows that follow the sun;
By the west, where ...

One last long look upon thy face,
My year of grace!
O sweet and strange! What vision lies
Hal...

Her robes yet skirted with the sunset glimmer,
Into the twilight brown,
Into the twilight eve...