Gladness
The world has brought not anything
To make me glad to-day!
The swallow had a broken wing,
And after all my journeying
There was no water in the spring, -
My friend has said me nay.
But yet somehow I needs must sing
As on a luckier day.
Dusk falls as gray as any tear,
There is no hope in sight!
But something in me seems so fair,
That like a star I needs must wear
A safety made of shining air
Between me and the night.
Such inner weavings do I wear
All fashioned of delight!
I need not for these robes of mine
The loveliness of earth,
But happenings remote and fine
Like threads of dreams will blow and shine
In gossamer and crystalline,
And I was glad from birth.
So even while my eyes repine,
My heart is clothed in mirth.
By Anna Hempstead Branch
Anna Hempstead Branch was born on 18 March 1875 in New London, Connecticut, United States of America. She became a poet. Anna Hempstead Branch passed on at 62 years of age on 8 September 1937 in New London, Connecticut, United States of America.
The world has brought not anything
To make me glad to-day!
The swallow had a broken wing,
And after all my journeying
There was no water in the spring, -
My friend has said me nay.
But yet somehow I needs must sing
As on a luckier day.
Dusk falls as gray as any tear,
There is no hope in sight!
But something in me seems so fair,
That like a star I needs must wear
A safety made of shining air
Between me and the night.
Such inner weavings do I wear
All fashioned of delight!
I need not for these robes of mine
The loveliness of earth,
But happenings remote and fine
Like threads of dreams will blow and shine
In gossamer and crystalline,
And I was glad from birth.
So even while my eyes repine,
My heart is clothed in mirth.
By Anna Hempstead Branch
Anna Hempstead Branch was born on 18 March 1875 in New London, Connecticut, United States of America. She became a poet. Anna Hempstead Branch passed on at 62 years of age on 8 September 1937 in New London, Connecticut, United States of America.
