Song Overheard
I wrote your name within my heart
Most carefully—
I never could remember names or faces;
And then, one day,
I lost my heart along the shining places.
I must have let it fall,
Plucking a flower I did not want
And listening to a bird I did not see:
Now would I call—
And you would answer me.
Do hearts have wings?
I am so careless about losing things.
Credit
Copyright © 1922 by Leonora Speyer. This poem was first printed in Poetry, Vol. 20, No. 6 (September 1922). This poem is in the public domain.
Author
Leonora Speyer
Leonora Speyer was born in Washington, D.C., in 1872. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1927 for her poetry collection Fiddler’s Farewell (Alfred A. Knopf, 1926)
Date Published
09/01/1922