Muriel Stuart

Here you will find the Poem Man and his Makers of poet Muriel Stuart

Man and his Makers

1.
I am one of the wind's stories, 
I am a fancy of the rain,- 
A memory of the high noon's glories, 
The hint the sunset had of pain.

2.
They dreamed me as they dreamed all other; 
Hawthorn and I, I and the grass, 
With sister shade and phantom brother 
Across their slumber glide and pass.

3.
Twilight is in my blood, my being 
Mingles with trees and ferns and stones; 
Thunder and stars my lips are freeing, 
And there is sea-rack in my bones.

4.
Those that have dreamed me shall out-wake me, 
But I go hence with flowers and weeds; 
I am no more to those who make me 
Than other drifting fruit and seeds.

5.
And though I love them -mourn to leave them- 
Sea, earth and sunset, stars and streams, 
My tears, my passing do not grieve them . . . 
Other dreams have they, other dreams.