Bric-a-Brac

Little things that no one needs --
Little things to joke about --
Little landscapes, done in beads
Little morals, woven out
Little wreaths of gilded grass
Little brigs of whittled oak
Bottled painfully in glass;
These are made by lonely folk

Lonely folk have lines of days
Long and faltering and thin;
Therefore -- little wax bouquets
Prayers cut upon a pin
Little maps of pinkish lands
Little charts of curly seas
Little plats of linen strands
Little verses, such as these