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Poems by Margaret Widdemer

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The Unfound City

... . . .   Have ye not seen our eyes that seek its light, ...

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Once I Met Happiness

...   All the leaves dew-pearled, ...

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Certainties

... Comes the one scar that your heart shall hide ...

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And If You Came—

... My throat that something clutched the while, ...

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Givers

... And an endless demesne where my dreams can live my whole life through ...

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The Factories

... - was it I? I have robbed my sister of the lips against her breast ...

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In An Office Building

... That I should dream, some far-off night from this ...

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God’s Places

... And through the windowed canyon's end the sky's sweet blue ...

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Interim

... . . Oh, hush, my soul, take comfort now ...

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The Beggars

... “And the clothes last,” the thought runs on, within ...

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Unspelled

...   And mocking echoes cried across the chill ...

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Swan-Child

... (For Aline) MY feet have touched the Dancing Water, ...

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When I Was A Young Girl

... . ." When I was a young girl, a young girl, a young girl, ...

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The Jester

... . .  Shall they not mock me, these pain-haunted ones,  ...

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Discovery

... Line on proud line it faced me there ...