Poems (Radford)/Speedwells

by Dollie Radford

Speedwells

I came to lay my sorrow in the wood,
 It had so heavy grown,
And on my way the little speedwells stood,
 And claimed it for their own.

I came to let my tears in anguish fall,
 They were too great to bear,
And now the little speedwells hold them all,
 I have no tears to spare.

There is no other sign, by flower or leaf,
 To mark the road I came;
This tiny cup of blue bears all the grief
 I had not strength to name.