Red Geraniums
Life did not bring me silken gowns,
Nor jewels for my hair,
Nor signs of gabled foreign towns
In distant countries fair,
But I can glimpse, beyond my pane, a green and friendly hill,
And red geraniums aflame upon my window sill.
The brambled cares of everyday,
The tiny humdrum things,
May bind my feet when they would stray,
But still my heart has wings
While red geraniums are bloomed against my window glass,
And low above my green-sweet hill the gypsy wind-clouds pass.
And if my dreamings ne’er come true,
The brightest and the best,
But leave me lone my journey through,
I’ll set my heart at rest,
And thank God for home-sweet things, a green and friendly hill,
And red geraniums aflame upon my window sill.
by Martha Haskell Clark: “The Home Road” (1924), page 31
Martha Haskell Clark was born as Marth Gay Haskell on 18 October 1885 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States of America. She became a poet. Her poetry appeared in “Scribner’s,” “Good Housekeeping,” and “Ladies’ Home Journal.” Her poems were collected and published in the book, “The Home Road” (1924). She was married to Eugene Clark in 1906. Martha Haskell Clark passed on at 36 years of age on 24 March 1922 in Hanover, Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States of America.
Life did not bring me silken gowns,
Nor jewels for my hair,
Nor signs of gabled foreign towns
In distant countries fair,
But I can glimpse, beyond my pane, a green and friendly hill,
And red geraniums aflame upon my window sill.
The brambled cares of everyday,
The tiny humdrum things,
May bind my feet when they would stray,
But still my heart has wings
While red geraniums are bloomed against my window glass,
And low above my green-sweet hill the gypsy wind-clouds pass.
And if my dreamings ne’er come true,
The brightest and the best,
But leave me lone my journey through,
I’ll set my heart at rest,
And thank God for home-sweet things, a green and friendly hill,
And red geraniums aflame upon my window sill.
by Martha Haskell Clark: “The Home Road” (1924), page 31
Martha Haskell Clark was born as Marth Gay Haskell on 18 October 1885 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States of America. She became a poet. Her poetry appeared in “Scribner’s,” “Good Housekeeping,” and “Ladies’ Home Journal.” Her poems were collected and published in the book, “The Home Road” (1924). She was married to Eugene Clark in 1906. Martha Haskell Clark passed on at 36 years of age on 24 March 1922 in Hanover, Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States of America.
