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The Stars by Mary Mapes Dodge

September 23rd, 2007 Comments(0)

There is some wonderful star-gazing out here in the country…

The Stars
By Mary Mapes Dodge

They wait all day unseen by us, unfelt;
Patient they bide behind the day’s full glare;
And we who watched the dawn when they were there,
Thought we had seen them in the daylight melt,
While the slow sun upon the earthlink knelt.
Because the teeming sky seemed void and bare,
When we explored it through the dazzled air,
We had no thought that there all day they dwelt.
Yet were they over us, alive and true.
In the vast shades far up above the blue,—
The brooding shades beyond our daylight ken—
Serene and patient in their conscious light
Ready to sparkle for our joy again,—
The eternal jewels of the short-lived night.

Emerson by Mary Mapes Dodge

December 08th, 2004 Comments(0)

I need to read more of Emerson’s poetry…

Emerson
By Mary Mapes Dodge

We took it to the woods, we two,
   The book well worn and brown,
To read his words where stirring leaves
   Rained their soft shadows down.

Yet as we sat and breathed the scene,
   We opened not a page;
Enough that he was with us there,
   Our silent, friendly sage!

His fresh “Rhodora” bloomed again;
   His “Humble-bee” buzzed near;
And oh, the “Wood-notes” beautiful
   He taught our souls to hear.

So our unopened book was read;
   And so, in restful mood,
We and our poet, arm in arm,
   Went sauntering through the wood.