There is a glory in a great mistake.

- Nathalia Crane

The sign work of the Orient it runneth up and down; The Talmud stalks from right to left, a rabbi in a gown; The Roman rolls from left to right from …

- Nathalia Crane

Oh I'm in love with the janitor's boy, And the janitor's boy loves me; He's going to hunt for a desert isle In our geography.

- Nathalia Crane

Said the tiger to the lily, Said the viper to the rose, Let us marry so our children May attain the double pose. With a feline half a flower With the…

- Nathalia Crane

In the darkness, who would answer for the color of a rose, Or the vestments of the May moth and the pilgrimage it goes?

- Nathalia Crane

The starry brocade of the summer night Is linked to us as part of our estate; And every bee that wings its sidelong flight Assurance of a sweeter, fa…

- Nathalia Crane

The rose has told In one simplicity That never life Relinquishes a bloom But to bestow An ancient confidence.

- Nathalia Crane

Let go the lure The striving to unmake; Behold the truth Whenever heart may ache There is a glory In a great mistake.

- Nathalia Crane

I linger on the flathouse roof, the moonlight is divine. But my heart is all aflutter like the washing on the line.

- Nathalia Crane