Love’s Small Song
Love’s small song
Love’s small song
Though my love is far away
I shall sing and wake the day
Love’s small song
Love’s small song
Though my love is ages gone
I shall sing love’s small song
I shall sing and wake the dawn
Lilacs
With words that reach from star to stone
And lies as true as nature’s own
My friends and I will sing a sea of merciful days
For the Lilacs have come
That bloom the whole year round
Friends remembered and lovers found
And lovers found
Arise, my love, and come away
For the winter’s ruinous work is done
Arise my love and come away
For the earth has heard the robin’s song
And welcomed every word
And welcomed every word
My friends and I will sing a sea of merciful days
For the lilacs have come
That bloom the whole year round
Friends remembered and lovers found
And lovers found
So good
Beyond all wishing
That even as we slept
Small voices, sweet to sing,
Did sing a promise kept
My friends and I will sing a sea of merciful days
For the lilacs have come
That bloom the whole year round
Friends remembered and lovers found
And lovers found
Black But Comely
I’m black but comely
As a night shot with stars
I’m black but comely
As a night shot with stars
And I’m not a tree of sticks
No, I’m not a tree of sticks
But a forest of hemlocks and beeches
Of waters dark as wine from boundless reaches
Black but comely
As a night shot with stars
I tried to find you
And I missed you by a mile
The soldiers found me
And they took me for a whore
If I can’t have you
I can love you just the same
I’m black but comely
As the smoke of home
I’m black but comely
As the smoke of home
And I’m not a tree of sticks
No. I’m not a tree of sticks
But a forest of hemlocks and beeches
Of waters dark as wine from boundless reaches
Black but comely
As a night shot with stars
As a night shot with stars
Endless Night
As stars that shine unseen
To call the day their home
And make no thieving visit there
But live where songs come from
With open-throated arms
To hold you singing God’s own song
Who writes a song must love to hear it sung
And gentle hope has made my song a reckless one
Can’t hobbled words be made to rhyme?
With thoughtful reach of heart to take from killing time
A song so small
That endless night sweet evening’s kiss recall?
And didn’t kind and learned hands once write on broken bits of clay?
Those shards
That from a world of bliss did fall a world away?
And writing make a homely scroll to wear
That ruin’s children, fathered by mistake,
Might find their good beginning there and sing
A song so small
That endless night sweet evenings kiss recall?
For Anne Marie I’d be a day
For Anne Marie I’d be a day
I’d be a day
For Anne Marie I’d be a day
Morning Fire
I Am a House
Where Dawn Comes Cold
And You, My Love
My Morning Fire
And you, My Love
You Are My Morning Fire
Awake North Wind
And Come Ye South
From Cold Horizons
Rise and Run
Awake North Wind
And Come Ye South
As March to Find
An Early Spring
Where We Await Ourselves
I Know We’ll Touch
And I’ll Find You, My Love
My Morning Fire
And You, My Love
You Are My Morning Fire
I Am a House
Where Dawn Comes Cold
And You, My Love
My Morning Fire
And You, My Love
You Are My Morning Fire
A Book of Songs for Anne Marie
I’ll make a book of songs for my Anne Marie
With every good beginning and every grateful end
And every grateful end to close upon a world of good
My arms to close upon a world of good
As nature’s best pretense as her sweetest lie
That branch’s furthest bud to reach a winter sky
To reach a winter sky and close upon a world of good
My arms to close upon a world of good
A garden gate of arms for a fertile field
I’ll find a man to hold you as a fountain sealed
As a fountain sealed and close upon a world of good
My arms to close upon a world of good
As sunlight comes to sorry stone
So come, my love
And take this sorriest stone of all
To find a grateful place
That warm and sunlit wall
My arms to close upon a world of good
My arms to close upon a world of good
Unheard of Hope
Unheard of hope
As hands made big to give
Press small fingers round a coin
And say “Here. Take this. It’s for you.
Mind now, don’t lose it.”
I’ll take your heart
The one you thought was yours
And give you one to call your own
And say, “Here. Take this. It’s for you.
Mind now, don’t lose it.”
A god’s remorse
For a ruined world
Small voices made sweet to sing
And say, “Here. Take this. It’s for you.
Mind now, don’t lose it.”
The cutters come
And a tree must fall
With a great forgiving rush of wind
And say, “Here. Take this. It’s for you.
Mind now, don’t lose it.”
And Anne Marie Does Love to Sing
And Anne Marie does love to sing
And Anne Marie does love the day
And I can’t stop my heart
And I can’t take my eyes away
And come the time of gentle light
And morning star does visit night
And come the time of gentle light
And evening star does visit night
One gentle light does have two names
And Anne Marie does love to sing
And Anne Marie does love the day
And I can’t stop my heart
And I can’t take my eyes away
And I did lose you
I did lose you
And where will I go now
And where will I go
And where will I go now?
So write my song with a triad bright as a belt of stars
Orion-like to run before the hounds
Orion-like, compelled by love to run
where love abounds
To run where love abounds
To run where love abounds
And write my song on the five black lines
of a bluejay’s wing
And fly in winter’s face a man to sing
Orion-like, by love compelled to run
where love abounds
To run where love abounds
To run where love abounds
And in the throats of gelded boys who sing
themselves to sleep
Let voices waken oceans deep
Orion-like, by love compelled to run
where love abounds
To run where love abounds
To run where love abounds
So patient wait the valley’s bloom
And grateful sing the summer’s end
With rose of sharon overgrowing
Overgrowing
Overgrowing
Set Me as a Seal on Your Heart
Here’s truth
Your songs would make an angel choke
Here’s justice
A robin eaten by a worm
Your very likeness lies in that rotten joke
And mercy is in the hiding of it
So set me as a seal on your heart
As a seal on your arm
For love is stronger than death
More jealous than the tomb
The embers of a fire, come from God
That all the water in the world could not consume
So set me as a seal on your heart
As a seal on your arm
As Morning Holds a Star
There must be something wrong
For love’s not choking on her song
There must be some mistake
When robins wake a winter day
There must be some mistake
Your smile
The horizon of my heart
To stammer out a day
Like a baby first time talking
Here I am
It’s me
I’m here
And I’ll hold you
As morning holds a star
If morning never held a star before
And I’ll hold you
In grateful arms that sing
No more sad songs
No more
No more night skies
I’ve got a sunrise
An unquiet heart
A quieting hand has stilled
An empty cradle filled
No more sad songs
No more sad songs, no more
No more night skies, I’ve got a sunrise
A sunrise
A sunrise
I’ve got a sunrise
Lyrics Baby Dee album A Book of Songs for Anne Marie
Songs
A Book of Songs for Anne Marie
And Anne Marie Does Love To Sing
All other tracks
on A Book of Songs for Anne Marie
are instrumental
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