Poems by Edwin Curran

Dear, vainly do I strive
To know the depths of thee--
I now reach forth my hand--
Lost in a s...

I love her--so life is dawn;
I love her and life is spring;
Life is the flash of lightning,
...

The sky is calling me to go
Down thru the valleys of the sun;
Forever must I journey so
And s...

That night
The sky bent to the manger with still lips.
The universe hung watching with its star...

There is a rainbow in the sky,
That from the thunder springs,
And looking upward I can see
G...

Dawn takes the everlasting skies
And shoulders out the stars, and eyes
Of night are closed, a...

I cannot view a starry night,
Or hear a whispering tree,
Or watch the silver lightning-flight...

The singing bee comes like a little ship,
And docks beside a rose for cargoed wine,
Its gossa...

Strong of bone and strong of brawn,
Colored like the wings of dawn
And flying like them down t...

In ashes lies the lovely rose,
The jonquils blackened on the stem,
The lily withered with its...

The music of the autumn winds sings low,
Down by the ruins of the painted hills,
Where death ...