Bluestone Lyrics

TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION xiii BLUESTONE 1 SONGS FROM BESIDE SWIFT RIVERS A Chant out of Doore 9 I Came to be Alone 11 The Air 13 Ghosts 14 Song of Two Wanderers 15 Before Dawn in the Woods 17 White Magic 18 By a Salmon River 19 This Shall be the Bond 20 An Oath in April 23 Sunset 24 Near the Rivers 25 Silver Waters 26 quotThe Really Truly Twirly Whirly Eelquot 27 Barefoot 29 Berries 32 A Thought when Noon is Hot 34 Green Valleys 35 SONGS OF POVERTY Debt 41 To-day 42 fc Tired Pawnbroker Passing a Friend 45 Work Poverty PREFERENCES People Weather Music Food Colors Trees LOVE SONGS An Incantation CONTENTS A Walk in Springtime A Chant of Youth In Passing Let There Be Light Morning and Evening A Song for my Mate At the Last SONGS OF AN EMPTY HOUSE Vista Food and Clothing Childless For the Child that never Was -The End PAGE 43 44 46 47 51 55 56 57 58 59 63 64 65 67 68 69 71 72 77 79 80 83 CONTENTS SONGS OP LAUGHTER AND TEARS - A Long Song PAGE of Momus 87 An Elegy 91 Garments 94 In a Certain Restaurant 96 Garden Song A Song 98 for Mother s Day 100 Birth 101 To my Country Songs of Sun and Shadow 102 1 103 II 104 III 105 Time-Shadows 106 WHIMS FOR POETS The Winds Ill To Seanchan 112 Duty 113 If They Will not HearMe 114 Songs I Sang Long Ago 115 CALIFORNIA POEMS The Mountain Lilac of California 119 A Night on the Beach 121 These for Me 122 The Fog Comes in at Night 123 To the Summer Sun 124 THE PAGEANT 126 Wl