My Little Dreams

I’m folding up my little dreams
   Within my heart tonight,
And praying I may soon forget
   The torture of their sight.

For time’s deft fingers scroll my brow
   With fell relentless art—
I’m folding up my little dreams
   Tonight, within my heart.

Source: The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems (The Cornhill Company, 1918)
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