Wings of Youth

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. Wings of Youth is Nancy Buckley's second collection of lyric poems, a tender and hopeful book shaped by youth, love, sorrow, memory, and the inward life of the heart. Its musical, image-rich verses move through gardens, dreams, windows, roses, sea light, and the quiet beauty of ordinary moments, turning simple scenes into radiant reflections on feeling and faith. Early poems such as "Wings," "The Singer," "Dreamers," and "The Little Gypsy" establish a romantic world where longing is softened by nature, devotion, and imagination. As the collection unfolds, Buckley blends homesickness, prayerful reflection, temptation, heartbreak, and spiritual endurance with a gentle, searching grace. Poems like "My Little Window," "Homesick," "Silver Ships," "The Little Old House," and "The Easter Bell" contrast inner ache with restorative beauty and hope. Later pieces, including "A Gypsy's Longing," "Candles," and "Rendezvous," deepen the themes of absence, divided desire, and the heart as a sacred place where love and loss are preserved. Warm, wistful, and quietly uplifting, the collection ends in reflective abundance and hard-won happiness.