Doris Margaret Kenyon Home Poems Poets Doris Margaret Kenyon Poems The Birth of the Firefly by Doris Margaret Kenyon Dewdrop trembled on an aspen leaf; Above, a nightingale In an Airplane by Doris Kenyon Gently the ground sank from me ere I knew; My heart leaped up as breaking earth's last bond; Foreknown by Doris Margaret Kenyon I dreamed and I awoke, the morning light Streamed o'er my bed—it was no longer night. The Teardrop by Doris Kenyon A star slips softly from the sky, In the hush of dusk, out of the blue; The Selfish Aim by Doris Margaret Kenyon He sought it in life's fresh and dewy morn; In misty woodlands where the shadows lay; The Haven of the Heart by Doris Kenyon Where the wild waste of waters toss and seethe, And maddened whitecaps dash against the cliffs,