 Poetry: August 15, 2018 Issue [#9051] |
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This week: Margaret Widdemer Edited by: Stormy Lady  
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Irish Love Song
by Margaret Widdemer
Well, if the thing is over, better it is for me,
The lad was ever a rover, loving and laughing free,
Far too clever a lover not to be having still
A lass in the town and a lass by the road and a lass by the farther hill --
Love on the field and love on the path and love in the woody glen --
(Lad, will I never see you, never your face again?)
Ay, if the thing is ending, now I'll be getting rest,
Saying my prayers and bending down to be stilled and blest,
Never the days are sending hope till my heart is sore
For a laugh on the path and a voice by the gate and a step
on the shieling floor --
Grief on my ways and grief on my work and grief till the evening's dim --
(Lord, will I never hear it, never a sound of him?)
Sure if it's done forever, better for me that's wise,
Never the hurt, and never tears in my aching eyes,
No more the trouble ever to hide from my asking folk
Beat of my heart at click o' the latch, and throb if his name is spoke;
Never the need to hide the sighs and the flushing thoughts and the fret,
And after awhile my heart will hush and my hungering hands forget . . .
Peace on my ways, and peace in my step, and maybe my heart grown light --
(Mary, helper of heartbreak, send him to me to-night!)
Margaret Widdemer was born on September 30, 1884, in Doylestown Pennsylvania. Her family moved to Asbury Park New Jersey, when her father became a minister of First Congregational Church. Widdemer was educated Drexel Institute Library School, graduating in 1909. Her first poem was “The Factories With Other Lyrics,” published in 1917. It was after the publication of “The Factories With Other Lyrics,” which was about child labor in the factories and other social problem of the time, that Widdemer became well known as a poet.
In 1918 she published her another collection of poems ”The Old Road to Paradise.” She received the Columbia University Prize for it the following year, which is now known as the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Also in 1919 she married Robert Haven Schauffler a fellow poet, an author and cellist who publications included topic such as travel, culture, and music. He was five years her senior. The couple lived in New York City, New York.
Widdemer work was featured in Harriet Monroe’s “The New Poetry: An anthology” in 1917. She edited “The Haunted Hour,” in 1920. Published collections include, “Little Girl and Boy Land,” in 1924, ”Collected Poems,” in 1928, ”The Road to Downderry” in 1931 followed by ”Dark Cavalier” in 1958. Widdemer also wrote and published many children’s books. Several of her books focused on a character named “Winona.” ”Winona of the Campfire,” was her first published in 1915 followed by “Winona of Camp Karonya” in 1917, “Winona's War Farm” in 1918, “Winona's Way” in 1919, “Winona on her Own,” in 1922 and “Winona's Dreams Come True,” in 1923.
In all Widdemer published over 30 novels including, “The Rose-Garden Husband,” in 1915 which became a film, “A Wife on Trial,” “All the King's Horses,” published in 1930, followed by “Marriage is Possible,” in 1936 and “Red Cloak Flying” in 1950, to name a few. After the passing of her husband Robert in 1964, she published the memoir “Golden Friends I Had ,” in 1964 and “The Red Castle Women,” in 1968. She also served as vice president of the Poetry Society of America and appeared on the radio series Do You Want to Write? Margaret Widdemer died on July 14, 1978, in New York City, New York.
The Dark Cavalier
by Margaret Widdemer
I am the Dark Cavalier; I am the Last Lover:
My arms shall welcome you when other arms are tired;
I stand to wait for you, patient in the darkness,
Offering forgetfulness of all that you desired.
I ask no merriment, no pretense of gladness,
I can love heavy lids and lips without their rose;
Though you are sorrowful you will not weary me;
I will not go from you when all the tired world goes.
I am the Dark Cavalier; I am the Last Lover;
I promise faithfulness no other lips may keep;
Safe in my bridal place, comforted by darkness,
You shall lie happily, smiling in your sleep.
Song
by Margaret Widdemer
The Spring will come when the year turns,
As if no Winter had been,
But what shall I do with a locked heart
That lets no new year in?
The birds will go when the Fall goes,
The leaves will fade in the field,
But what shall I do with an old love
Will neither die nor yield?
Oh! youth will turn as the world turns,
And dim grow laughter and pain,
But how shall I hide from an old dream
I never may dream again?
Thank you all!
Stormy Lady
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Floating reflections of loneliness
Mysteriously moving.
Tangled Dreams in the twilight
Moonbeams shimmering.
The bottled reality of deception
Angels sadly flying.{/cener}
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