| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Poems (1901)
I. The Tree-Lover | | By Katharine Tynan Hinkson (1861–1931) |
| | | SWEET is the sweet May weather, | |
| Trees go airy and bright, | |
| Winged with the gold-green feather, | |
| Veiled in the deep-sea light. | |
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| Clad in the emerald silk, | 5 |
| All a-flutter, a-glitter; | |
| Blossoms white as the milk, | |
| Never were roses sweeter. | |
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| Leafy shadows, all dancing, | |
| Lovely in shine and shower, | 10 |
| Ever twinkling and glancing, | |
| Birds have built them a bower. | |
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| Lord of the leaf and tree, | |
| When ’tis time for my going, | |
| Leafing time let it be, | 15 |
| Neither snowing nor blowing! | |
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| After that journey taken | |
| Let me open my eyes | |
| To woods by a May-wind shaken, | |
| Full of the birds’ replies! | 20 |
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| Paradise woods in Spring, | |
| Scarcely than Earth’s were sweeter; | |
| Every leafs on the wing, | |
| All a-flutter, a-glitter. | |
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| Paradise woods in commotion, | 25 |
| Tossed in a heavenly May; | |
| After the bitter ocean, | |
| Dear and homelike were they. | |
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| Lord of the world to be, | |
| Build me no jasper palace, | 30 |
| But the young leaf on the tree, | |
| And the young bloom on the trellis! | | | | |
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