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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A LADY, by CAROLINE KLINGENSMITH GARDNER
First Line: Her face is thoughtful, like the twilight sky
Last Line: In windless woods, where soon no birds will sing.
Subject(s): Wellesley College
First Line: Her face is thoughtful, like the twilight sky
Last Line: In windless woods, where soon no birds will sing.
Subject(s): Wellesley College
HER face is thoughtful, like the twilight sky,
And in the dimming glory of her hair
Are scattered ashes, where the flame of care
Has burned a little while and fluttered by.
Gray eyes she has, wrought out of sympathy,
Pale eyelids, misty as with unshed tears,
A subtle mouth all tremulous with years
That could not mar the soul's serenity.
Such loveliness another might have lost,
Or failed to find on sorrow's lonely way,
Hers is the beauty of the waning day,
Or shimmering birch leaves lately touched by frost,
Her presence, like deep water murmuring,
In windless woods, where soon no birds will sing.
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