Poems by Kenneth Rand

I dreamed one night that I was lost among
The sounding mazes of an endless vault,
Deep-wrought...

Out from the gloom of the mountain-gorges,
Dark in the glow of the dawn,
See how they scurry ...

Red is the flower of thy mouth
As the wine that the flagon spatters,
And the heart of the wind...

With the columbine
And the eglantine
For new love, and for folly,
Now by my rood
I'll suit ...

I think thou waitest, Love, beyond the Gate--
Eager, with wind-stirred ripples in thy hair;
...

The earth and sky
Have a song as old as themselves;
And you and I
For one brief moment, whil...

We meet in a sorrowful land
That is hard by the gates of death--
A smile, and a touch of the h...

I've followed my restless heart
To the uttermost ends of earth--
New stars arise in alien skies...

The tossing tops of the palm are loud with a wind from the Spanish Main
That strums the harp of ...

I who have lived my life,
My years of hot-blood roving, in the sun--
Now that my course is ru...

Friends, who have loved me well and known me ill,
Who called me joyous only yesterday--
You k...

O children who have never known the clasp
Of those dear arms that fend away the world,
Surely ...

Because I may not find thee, though I seek
West of the setting sun, east of the morn,
And tr...