Living

A Changeling Grateful

by Josephine Preston Peabody 1874–1922

From The Wayfarers (1898)

Living

Here they give me greeting,
House me warm within,
Break their bread and share it
With the heart of kin.

Here the ruddy hearth-light
Singes not a moth,
Gives a summer welcome
As a red rose doth.

I would leave a gift here
If I might: not I!--
Like a homeless laughter,
Vagrant wind gone by.
But while I am a glow-worm
I will shine and stay:
When I am a shadow . . .
I will creep away.

MLA

Peabody, Josephine Preston. “A Changeling Grateful.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/peabody/136/.

Chicago

Peabody, Josephine Preston. “A Changeling Grateful.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/peabody/136/.

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