I Saw You

I saw you as I passed last night,
    Framed in a sky of gold;
And through the sun’s fast paling light
    You seemed a queen of old,
Whose smile was light to all the world
    Against the crowding dark.
And in my soul a song there purled—
    Re-echoed by the lark.

I saw you as I passed last night,
    Your tresses burnished gold,
While in your eyes a happy bright
    Gleam of your friendship told.
And I went singing on my way;
    On, on into the dark.
But in my heart still shone the day,
    And still—still sang the lark.

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“I Saw You” originally appeared in Poems of the Four Seas (The Cornhill Company, 1921).

Black Lives Matter Anthology

“This is just us
breathing. Imagine
normalized respite
gold in shadows”

—“Breathe. As in. (shadow)” by Rosamond S. King