Poems by Edith Willis Linn Forbes

And thou wert waiting for me all these years!
While I have wept and prayed and laughed in glee: ...

Lush summer had her lavish treasure hurled
On grove, and glade, and garden all abloom;
When ...

Radiant, beautiful Odessa!
Lying by the black-waved sea;
Mountain-crowned, wave-washed, whi...

In every great heroic deed
That lifts the human race;
In smallest, dear self-sacrifice,
I s...

One moment I have held her to my breast
And looked within her deep and tender eyes;
Have seen ...

Folding the earth in its mantle
Pure and undefiled,
Soft in its own clear whiteness
As the ch...

Tell me you love me, --once and yet again.
Fear not my heart will ever weary grow
Hearing the w...

Hast thou heard the blue sea as it sings on the sand?
Dost thou know what it tells to the blosso...

Though autumn, yet you somehow feel
That blue-bells blossomed here in spring;
No artist that ...

Fair Atlantis, peerless country,
Lulled within the ocean's arms,
Lying beautiful and shining...

Within your hands, my life is like soft clay
Moulded at will, --or better, like the snow
Of m...

A star that glimmers in the far-off gray
Of evening air; the robin's fitful cry;
The cherry tr...

Bordered by birches white and tall,
And pines that sob and sigh,
Fair Norway pond, like some...

Come closer to me! Let me feel your breath
Wander upon my cheek and o'er my brow.
As some lost ...

Bride of the Night, clad in such fitting robes!
What is there in this silent, sombre mien
To ...