Poem by Ina Donna Coolbrith

Return

I had been dead so many years-
And I had missed you so.
I thought in heaven there were no tears,
But ah, their weary flow!
And when at last the joy-word came,
An hour to wander back,
My spirit flashed, a living flame,
Along that mystic track.

I sped the pathway of the stars
And the abyss of night;
Past all space-barriers and bars
I winged my eager flight;
I found you, Love! O bitter day!
You had remembered not!
Farther than life itself away-
My very name forgot.

1. Copa De Oro
2. Fruitionless
3. Siesta
4. Love-Song
5. The Day of Our Lord

Charles Sorley Return ("Still stand the downs so wise and wide?") 18 September 1913

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