Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume I. Of Home: of Friendship. 1904. | | | | Poems of Home: II. For Children | | Wings | | Mary Louise Ritter |
| | | THE SUNSET light is on the sail, | |
| The water all aglow, | |
| And on the billows up and down | |
| The boat rocks to and fro; | |
| The birds float upward to the sky— | 5 |
| Oh, how I long for wings to fly! | |
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| The boat has wings, the birds have wings, | |
| But none remain for me | |
| Save wings of kind and loving thought | |
| And wings of memory. | 10 |
| On these I come, and still repeat— | |
| I love, I love, I love you, Sweet! | | | | |
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