POETRY.

Lake County Press, Issue 2491, 14 August 1913, Page 2

POETRY.

FROM THE POETS. \t night when all the world is still And the crescent moon swings low, With drowsy feet on the poppy hill A little dream shall go; Then out beyond the silverv waves That kiss the slumber shore, And in your sleep you'll smile because My dieam is at your door. Outside your portal love shall wait, His deep eyes wet with dew, For through "all stress of time or fate • My life belongs to you; So lift your tender face to mine, Give me your lips once more, 0, sweetheart, say you love me when My dream is at your door! Myrtle Reed. THE UNSPOKEN WORD. Helen M. Richardson. When night lets fall her curtain gray. And stars bestud the sky; When all our simple daily tasks Are for the time laid by, And we with idly folded hands The paths of memory tread, Then swell our grateful hearts with • thanks For words we've left unsaid. Words that may bring regret or pain When memory lives them o'er. That wound a heart without a cause, Are words we should deplore.

Because of utterance of things Much better loft unsaid. Some little child has oft been sent With tear-stained face to bed. Then mothers pause before you say That which may wound or harm The little one who nestles close Within vour circling arm. The years'that stretch before, for each Have pages still unread ; Let not their whiteness o'er be marred By words best left unsaid. The' crackling embers on the hearth are dead, The indoor note of industry is still ; The latch is fast; upon the windowsill The small birds wait not for their daily broad 1 ; The voiceless flowers —how quietly they shed Their nightly odours —and the household rill Murmurs continuous dulcet sounds that fill. The vacant expectation, and the dread Of listening night. And haply now she sleeps; , For all the garrulous noises of the air Are hush'd in peace: the soft dew silent weeps Like hopeless lovers for a maid so fair : Oh! that I were the happy dream that creeps 'J'o her soft heai - *, to find my image —H. Coleridge (1796-1849).