Poems by Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

I dreamed your face, one night, when Heaven seemed resting,
Against the troubled fever of the...

You told me, last night,
In a strange and sudden burst of confidence;
That a New England anc...

It stands neglected, silent, far from the ways of men,
A lonely little cottage beside a lonel...

A Returning Soldier Speaks I am coming back with a singing soul through the surge of the splendi...

The dust is thick on the city street,
The smoke on the city sky
Hangs dense and gray at the cl...

You left me when the weary weight of sorrow
Lay, like a stone, upon my bursting heart;
It se...

Sometimes I dream that you are back with me,
And that with hands together clasped we go
Like l...

I love color.
I love flaming reds,
And vivid greens,
And royal flaunting purples.
I love th...

Child faces saddened, older than they should be,
And wiser than a lived-out span of years;
O...

Rosy glow against the dawn,
As another day is born;
Will you wake with cheerful eyes,
Looki...

Let's go down the road together, you and I,
Let's go down the road together,
Through the viv...

You came to me through the candlelight,
When the world, outside, was grey..
You came to me t...