Potential Title: Helen Hay Whitney

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When a myriad suns have burned and died - Helen Hay Whitney "Age"

For pride of spendthrift youth - Helen Hay Whitney "Age"

Grey on the great wall of Thought - Helen Hay Whitney "Age"

A glamour of the gorgeous summer green - Helen Hay Whitney "Alpha and Omega"

In the golden morning of my days - Helen Hay Whitney "Ambition and Love"

Where all the fires of fame burned glory - Helen Hay Whitney "Ambition and Love"

All the gauds that Fate bestows - Helen Hay Whitney "Amor Mysticus"

Swerve so little from my dream - Helen Hay Whitney "Amor Mysticus"

Locked against all circumstance - Helen Hay Whitney "Amor Mysticus"

Beneath the rain's unlicensed joys - Helen Hay Whitney "As a Pale Child"

As children play who make no noise - Helen Hay Whitney "As a Pale Child"

Contented with my flowers for stars - Helen Hay Whitney "As a Pale Child"

Pale and misty particles of Time - Helen Hay Whitney "Aspiration I"

Has drowned the hopes that Fortune held - Helen Hay Whitney "Aspiration I"

A blown leaf across the face of Time - Helen Hay Whitney "Ave atque Vale"

In this new symmetry you have no part - Helen Hay Whitney "Ave atque Vale"

Winds had their will of me - Helen Hay Whitney "Ave atque Vale"

In nonchalant procession to the dark - Helen Hay Whitney "Ave atque Vale"

Vex not the night with sound - Helen Hay Whitney "Be Still"

Caught the threaded echoes of the breeze - Helen Hay Whitney "Be Still"

Silence speaks the secret of the world - Helen Hay Whitney "Be Still"

All the precious boon I begged - Helen Hay Whitney "Beneath the Moon"

Through the hush of dawn a glad good-bye - Helen Hay Whitney "Beneath the Moon"

With a golden swift caress - Helen Hay Whitney "Bird Love--Rose Love"

Catch glints of rapture from the sky - Helen Hay Whitney "Bird Love--Rose Love"

Butterfly words from the sun - Helen Hay Whitney "Butterfly Words"

Flowers from off the lap of Time - Helen Hay Whitney "Chaque baiser vaut un roman"

The songs my voice has scorned - Helen Hay Whitney "Chaque baiser vaut un roman"

By the chance dropping of a tiny seed - Helen Hay Whitney "The Coming of Love"

Torn by winds and chilled with heedless snow - Helen Hay Whitney "The Coming of Love"

A sullen bar of light athwart the darkness - Helen Hay Whitney "The Days"

The place where tragic armies meet - Helen Hay Whitney "The Days"

Converse with the steeps of starry heaven - Helen Hay Whitney "The Dead Night"

Glowing amaranth droops upon its stalk - Helen Hay Whitney "Dear Dead Women"

Beggar thoughts pass down the lanes - Helen Hay Whitney "Disguised"

On the thorns that are the hours - Helen Hay Whitney "Disguised"

And leave no gifts but bitterness - Helen Hay Whitney "Disguised"

The hearts of all the ranging seas - Helen Hay Whitney "Does the Pearl Know?"

Who scorns the frown of Jove - Helen Hay Whitney "Does the Pearl Know?"

A space whose very size is pain - Helen Hay Whitney "A Dream in Fever"

In this vortex day with night combines - Helen Hay Whitney "A Dream in Fever"

A shuddering sea of silence - Helen Hay Whitney "A Dream in Fever"

Glimpsing the iris gateway barred ahead - Helen Hay Whitney "A Dream in Fever"

Across the blue of Isis' veil - Helen Hay Whitney "East and West"

Glints of prairie sun through river reeds - Helen Hay Whitney "East and West"

In the silence speak one quiet word - Helen Hay Whitney "Enough of Singing"

The four wide winds of evening - Helen Hay Whitney "Etoiles d'Enfer"

Tossed to their height by endless avatars - Helen Hay Whitney "Etoiles d'Enfer"

They know the stars of Hades - Helen Hay Whitney "Etoiles d'Enfer"

Fair blossoms spring from villany of weeds - Helen Hay Whitney "Etoiles d'Enfer"

Dare to raise our Babel thro' forbidden aisles - Helen Hay Whitney "Evening at Washington"

And hold the skirt of knowledge - Helen Hay Whitney "Evening at Washington"

Through calm unmeasured miles - Helen Hay Whitney "Evening at Washington"

A false love and a dismantled heart - Helen Hay Whitney "False"

Empty of faith and eager to depart - Helen Hay Whitney "False"

Hurls her rage against the sands - Helen Hay Whitney "False"

Piled with poppies and gold grain - Helen Hay Whitney "Flower of the Clove"

A lost star I wander down your sky - Helen Hay Whitney "Flower of the Clove"

With frozen heart and tearless eyes - Helen Hay Whitney "Flowers of Ice"

Fate idly throws these alms - Helen Hay Whitney "Flowers of Ice"

The crimson evil of a satyr's lips - Helen Hay Whitney "The Flowers of Proserpine"

Wake power to gain the fight - Helen Hay Whitney "For Your Sake"

Your false eyes closed forever - Helen Hay Whitney "The Forgiveness"

The kisses were ghostly with jasmine - Helen Hay Whitney "The Ghost"

And sought the island of enchanted skies - Helen Hay Whitney "The Golden Fruit"

With little rainbow rifts of seraph's eyes - Helen Hay Whitney "The Golden Fruit"

That breaks the thing it frees - Helen Hay Whitney "The Golden Fruit"

A wild little gnome in the wood - Helen Hay Whitney "The Grave of Hope"

And Hope that singes her wings - Helen Hay Whitney "The Grave of Hope"

We'd drink the years like wine - Helen Hay Whitney "How we would Live!"

All to-morrows hid behind the veil - Helen Hay Whitney "How we would Live!"

Catch the wind and twine the evening stars - Helen Hay Whitney "How we would Live!"

Lure the nightingale to sing - Helen Hay Whitney "How we would Live!"

The bare bright flame of the sun - Helen Hay Whitney "I Have Seen What the Seraphs Have Seen"

Brave mists that waver and wane - Helen Hay Whitney "I Have Seen What the Seraphs Have Seen"

Have burned to their last great glow - Helen Hay Whitney "In Autumn"

Seized by the angry wind - Helen Hay Whitney "In Autumn"

Spring will rise from her dungeon keep - Helen Hay Whitney "In Autumn"

Nor even with your eyes hold mine - Helen Hay Whitney "In Extremis"

Winding the garlands of May - Helen Hay Whitney "In the Grave"

Upon this alien shore I lean - Helen Hay Whitney "In the Mist"

The wind lays ghostly kisses on my lips - Helen Hay Whitney "In the Mist"

Drive wild gods in their flight - Helen Hay Whitney "In Tonga"

Leopard skin about her shoulders flung - Helen Hay Whitney "The Joy of Life"

Altars to their souls' fine fires - Helen Hay Whitney "The Joy of Life"

Prisons of triumphant night - Helen Hay Whitney "The Last Cloud"

Upon the altar of my heart's despair - Helen Hay Whitney "The Last Gift"

Tears as stars to sparkle in her hair - Helen Hay Whitney "The Last Gift"

A joy which can encompass grief - Helen Hay Whitney "Little Sad Face"

Great in loneliness of grey despair - Helen Hay Whitney "Little Sad Face"

Yielded her heart's sweet strife - Helen Hay Whitney "The Love of the Rose"

An endless immortality to blend - Helen Hay Whitney "Love's Kiss"

And so shall end my dream - Helen Hay Whitney "Love's Kiss"

We who play with rainbows - Helen Hay Whitney "Love's Legacy"

Serene within the shadow - Helen Hay Whitney "Lyric Love"

The world deserves its wisdom - Helen Hay Whitney "Lyric Love"

In hues of tulip twilight flowers - Helen Hay Whitney "Lyric Love"

Out of the purple treasuries of night - Helen Hay Whitney "Malua"

Guarding the temple gates of peace - Helen Hay Whitney "Malua"

Has heard the message of the Rose - Helen Hay Whitney "The Message"

Glory trembling through the air - Helen Hay Whitney "The Message"

Pale as the ghost of a flower - Helen Hay Whitney "Music"

Through fingers her jewels are falling - Helen Hay Whitney "Music"

The sea dreaming of stars - Helen Hay Whitney "Music"

The morning dancing with life - Helen Hay Whitney "Music"

Earth holds no sweeter secret - Helen Hay Whitney "My Brook"

Of every silver ripple meet the trees - Helen Hay Whitney "My Brook"

Lies under the swinging moon - Helen Hay Whitney "On the White Road"

Across the avenue of limes - Helen Hay Whitney "The Pattern of the Earth"

A little mist by ghosts made magical - Helen Hay Whitney "The Pattern of the Earth"

Through this bewildering maze of spring - Helen Hay Whitney "Persephone"

One amber dawn's delight - Helen Hay Whitney "Persephone"

Drink the lees of bitter wine - Helen Hay Whitney "The Philosopher"

Grant me the tragic deepness of the cup - Helen Hay Whitney "Pity Me Not!"

Shrined in a beryl cup - Helen Hay Whitney "Pot-Pourri"

Daring the flame of the sun - Helen Hay Whitney "Prayers"

Strong for the chill of the star - Helen Hay Whitney "Prayers"

Face the day's white monotone - Helen Hay Whitney "The Ribbon"

A silver string to pearls of sun - Helen Hay Whitney "The Ribbon"

Stained by the ardent silver of the stars - Helen Hay Whitney "The Rose-Colored Camelia-Tree"

Rose blossoms, traitors to the night - Helen Hay Whitney "The Rose-Colored Camelia-Tree"

Crimson poison petal of the South - Helen Hay Whitney "The Ruby"

Worn with long monotonies of pain - Helen Hay Whitney "The Scarlet Thread"

Working out the curse of Cain - Helen Hay Whitney "The Scarlet Thread"

Felt the fire of passion's sway - Helen Hay Whitney "The Scarlet Thread"

Show us crimson in some tragic way - Helen Hay Whitney "The Scarlet Thread"

Hold up the hollow of your hand - Helen Hay Whitney "Sigh Not for Love"

Catch the sparks that flutter from the stars - Helen Hay Whitney "Sigh Not for Love"

Weep for Winter's tempest wild - Helen Hay Whitney "Sigh Not for Love"

A pale and crownless rose - Helen Hay Whitney "Song [Love is a broken lily]"

Made chilly by traitor touch of snows - Helen Hay Whitney "Song [Love is a broken lily]"

A cadence trailing where broken music falls - Helen Hay Whitney "Song [Love is a broken lily]"

Dancing shadows on the snow - Helen Hay Whitney "A Song of the Oregon Trail"

Loose the storm-dogs from their bed - Helen Hay Whitney "Song [Sofly sighs the gracious wind]"

Disdains the wind's rough courting - Helen Hay Whitney "Spring and Autumn"

Her tears dissolve the earth - Helen Hay Whitney "Spring and Autumn"

Though her searching steps be light and fleet - Helen Hay Whitney "Spring and Autumn"

All the sun-stained fragments of the day - Helen Hay Whitney "The Supreme Sacrifice"

Fighting the stars for glory - Helen Hay Whitney "The Supreme Sacrifice"

Within the breast of brooding Earth - Helen Hay Whitney "The Supreme Sacrifice"

Leave the beaches of my heart - Helen Hay Whitney "The Tide of the Heart"

And left the naked sands forlorn - Helen Hay Whitney "The Tide of the Heart"

To bide the seas return - Helen Hay Whitney "The Tide of the Heart"

Full flooded on the fainting sands - Helen Hay Whitney "The Tide of the Heart"

The deep mysterious caves forget the distant night - Helen Hay Whitney "The Tide of the Heart"

Pour out my life as wine - Helen Hay Whitney "To a Woman"

Midnight seas that never sleep - Helen Hay Whitney "To B.D."

Beyond the dull world's heavy air - Helen Hay Whitney "To B.D."

The mystery of ages buried deep - Helen Hay Whitney "To B.D."

Distilled itself like dews in rue and asphodel - Helen Hay Whitney "To E. D."

When the tides of life run low - Helen Hay Whitney "To the Beloved"

Sit and watch the silent rain - Helen Hay Whitney "To the Beloved"

The roses of my heart shall bloom - Helen Hay Whitney "To the Beloved"

My heart must wake at dawn - Helen Hay Whitney "To-Morrow"

Where trees repeat their prayers - Helen Hay Whitney "Tranquility"

The key that opens to green arches - Helen Hay Whitney "Tranquility"

Bleak trees stand up against the sky - Helen Hay Whitney "Trees of the Wilderness"

No sweet-voiced bird will sing - Helen Hay Whitney "Trees of the Wilderness"

Will bloom within those trackless lands - Helen Hay Whitney "Trees of the Wilderness"

That I gnaw the bones of the town - Helen Hay Whitney "The Wanderer"

My flags are the chimneys' grime - Helen Hay Whitney "The Wanderer"

The haze of glimmering nights and golden days - Helen Hay Whitney "Was There Another Spring"

Amid the ruins of my shattered life - Helen Hay Whitney "Water and Wine"

And found the Gods had cheated - Helen Hay Whitney "Water and Wine"

A golden glow when twilight curtains fall - Helen Hay Whitney "Winter Song"

Too weary for the butterflies - Helen Hay Whitney "Youth"

Forgets to crave the moon - Helen Hay Whitney "Youth"


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