Imogene Wagner Poems

Oh, listen! Listen closely now
And breathe no sound to interfere...
I put the needle on the record, there!
And now the music comes to tell the ear.
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I come on hurried running feet,
Annoyed with time,
Vexed with the lady down the street
Hunting a dime-
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Lovely
Coquettish maids
Peeking painted faces
Coyly from under tilted green
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Although we've come to days that say goodbye
I hope that you will think of me as I
Will think of you with gentleness and smile,
So grateful for the time we shared awhile,
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I hear her judge and trembled
for the time
When she would stand before
the judge sublime
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A wispy pale green spider
WIth legs of matching thread
Crawled in a pink petunia
And calmly went to bed.
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Oh, trembling hands and heart be still
And let me read the words that will
Enfold the world in secret glow,
Where only heart and I will know
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I knew a man whose finger tip caressed
My cheek and claimed my heart without a word,
Who touched warm fires to my neck and blessed
My eyes with what I saw in his - I heard
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I man upon a porch in some strange place,
A little square within the earth his own,
A dissipated man with ugly face
Turned wearily upon the passing throng,
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There was the moment when you
Had broken me to the words that lovers vow;
When my heart bowed and sought its quick release,
But there was only silence
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