Another poem by this author states "Safe upon the rock the ugly houses stand / Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand".
In one poem by this author, the narrator reaches out in the night to find her lover gone and cold as dew, and that poem begins with the lines "Love, if I weep it will not matter / And if you laugh I shall not care". Another poem states "My soul is all but out of me" and tells the addressee "I cannot hold thee close enough". In addition to The Dream and God's World, she wrote a poem which the narrator wakes to find his mother "Looking nineteen / And not a day older" and frozen dead and relates the creation of clothes for a king's son. Another poem by this author states "Safe upon the rock the ugly houses stand / Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand". FTP, name this poet of The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver and Renascence who wrote of a candle that burns at both ends in the opening poem of A Few Figs from Thistles.
In one poem by this author, the narrator reaches out in the night to find her lover gone and cold as dew, and that poem begins with the lines "Love, if I weep it will not matter /
Edna St. Vincent {Millay}