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Poems by Margaret Widdemer

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Changeling

... . . And while this that bears your seeming ...

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Three Studies From A Portrait

...   And courted me," she tells, "last night ...

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I Said, "Love Is Gone"

...   And the day burned black ...

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October

...   One month against the gold sky's breast ...

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Song: I Wish I Were Old Now

...   And strong then," I'd say, ...

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Departure

... . . O then I knew my time was through, ...

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Travel Prayer

...   They lift their lights and hear: ...

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Greek Love Song

... Love and grief and motherhood, ...

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Next Year

... " Lord, let peace be kind and fleet– ...

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The Gray Magician

... And I wish the Gray Magician had been swung to an oak ...

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Poem from a Picture

... (Children at play on a French Battlefield) ...

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Prescience

...   On what terror-path faring ...

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A Ballad of the Wise Men

... " she said. (But high overhead the angels sang– ...

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The Dancers (For Edwin Arlington Robinson)

... All too late we knew them then, the wild eyes, the elf-eyes, ...

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One Worse Thing

... And there's one worse thing than a hurting heart that you have to hide and smile, ...