William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. (1878–1962). Anthology of Massachusetts Poets. 1922.
Song
O
Earth hushed in twilight,
Low through the live-oaks hung heavy with silver,
Gemmed with the sky-light,
Under the great wet star
Shaking with light, we jar
Lute-voiced the silence with intervaled music.
Flaming earth’s portal,
Over the lilac dusk spreads his great fingers—
Earth is immortal!
While the frail beauty dies.
Dream in the dreamer’s eyes,
All the good gladness turns praise for the singers.
Northern, gigantic,—
Questing the silences, herding the sudden foam
Down the Atlantic;
Leaves from the autumn’s store
Shrill at my desert door,
They and I out of one heart that is grieving.