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The eager feet of the returning dreamers - Mona Gould "Answer Me!"

Bright and wicked was his glance - Mona Gould "Apple Orchard"

Or any single thing to break this tenuous leash - Mona Gould "Autumn Is Unfair"

To let the heart sleep lightly - Mona Gould "Autumn Is Unfair"

Pity sleep in the curve of her palms - Mona Gould "Ballet Moment"

Weave a web of lovely words - Mona Gould "Bend Your Head"

Drinking coffee from polished skulls - Mona Gould "Black Coffee"

Pigeons drifting from sky to earth - Mona Gould "Cathedral"

Little orange willow switches hardly bending - Mona Gould "Colour in the Willows"

Still fretted with clotted snow at the sand edge - Mona Gould "Colour in the Willows"

Putting away in the mind's pocket - Mona Gould "Communion"

Filigreed ivory and cornflower crystal - Mona Gould "Gift Shop Window"

Hands have a way of betraying things - Mona Gould "Hands"

The distant notes of the hunter's horn - Mona Gould "I Run With the Fox"

Will still endure on Time's wide stream - Mona Gould "If This Be Good..."

Quicken me to trembling silence - Mona Gould "Immortal"

A breath of shaken longing - Mona Gould "Immortal"

And joy, like a shining sword cutting the dark - Mona Gould "Immortality, 1943"

Pain drowned in joy, and laughter from the heart - Mona Gould "Litany for the Lonely"

This bewildering space untenanted - Mona Gould "Loud Silence"

Intend to seek the roadway's farthest end - Mona Gould "Lunch Hour"

Builds himself a shelter from the night - Mona Gould "Man is a Lonely One"

The pitiless scar of Time's sharp claw - Mona Gould "Mirror"

A silver star caught in the meshes of the moon - Mona Gould "Night Garden"

In the long night when the black wings beat - Mona Gould "Nightmare"

And watch the cloud ships as they pass - Mona Gould "Nocturne"

A few bits of bread for the pigeons to eat - Mona Gould "The Old Lady and the Cat!"

In her eyrie above the dark street - Mona Gould "The Old Lady and the Cat!"

I hunger up toward dreaming - Mona Gould "Out of Loneliness"

A loneliness more deep than quiet death - Mona Gould "Out of Loneliness"

Tread a measure against bright candles - Mona Gould "Out of Loneliness"

Bare my throat to Autumn moonlight - Mona Gould "Out of Loneliness"

Cry to the stars that love rides by - Mona Gould "Out of Loneliness"

Then infinite scansion in the light - Mona Gould "Powder Room"

I shall not weep when you go but don a scarlet dress - Mona Gould "Promise"

And make my heart forget you - Mona Gould "Promise"

False tears that tangle in your lashes - Mona Gould "Rain"

Lamps up through the larkspur evening - Mona Gould "Rain"

Warm as snared sunlight - Mona Gould "Sherry"

Golden light to make a flight of dreams - Mona Gould "Sherry"

Wear your tinsel bright and bravely - Mona Gould "Small Christmas Tree (For F.G.)"

Carry your candles like holy things - Mona Gould "Small Christmas Tree (For F.G.)"

Know for certain that angels sing - Mona Gould "Small Christmas Tree (For F.G.)"

Who held his heart in thrall - Mona Gould "So Fair a Season"

When that call came down the wind - Mona Gould "So Fair a Season"

But a whispered echo through the dark - Mona Gould "Some Quiet Day ... Perhaps"

Our moments shared shall crumble down to dust - Mona Gould "Some Quiet Day ... Perhaps"

That puts all sober thoughts to flight - Mona Gould "Sorcery"


The prophecy of spring will be fulfilled - Mona Gould "Spring Comes to a Small Town"

Stars and the dead are faithful - Mona Gould "Stars and the Dead"

To give that rapier lightning turn - Mona Gould "Sung in High Dudgeon!"

Weaving violet shadows on their shining surface - Mona Gould "Tasting the Earth"

The hungry horde is dining on her heart - Mona Gould "Tea-Party"

A bitter brew mixed with my own hand - Mona Gould "This Bitter Brew"

The herbs grew flowering over the land - Mona Gould "This Bitter Brew"

A cloud furled like midnight - Mona Gould "This Bitter Brew"

A book with half the pages still uncut - Mona Gould "This Was My Brother (For Lt.-Col. Howard McTavish, killed in action at Dieppe)"

Where no emotion came to dance - Mona Gould "Traitor"

That wore a mocking shy disguise - Mona Gould "Traitor"

And fill my eyes with looking - Mona Gould "Wise Child"

The curve of your throat is a troubling sound - Mona Gould "Women are Like That"

That brittle berries strew the ground - Mona Gould "You Being Dead (For J.R.T.)"

No horns of daybreak reach your rest - Mona Gould "You Being Dead (For J.R.T.)"

Fauns who pass in mocking masque among the trees - Mona Gould "You Being Dead (For J.R.T.)"

In the secret places under my heart - Mona Gould "You, the Sower of Seed"

Hundreds of shoulders leaned against their strength - Mona Gould "You Wrote"

Here stand the dreams of men articulate in stone - Mona Gould "You Wrote"

The shadow of the Grail falls like a silver whisper - Mona Gould "You Wrote"


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