#Americans #Women
Every day, Every day, Tell the hours By their shadows, By their shadows.
Dost thou Not feel them slip, How cold! how cold! the moon’s Thin wavering finger-tips, along Thy throat?
Ere the horne’d owl hoot Once and twice and thrice there sh… Go among the blind brown worms News of thy great burial; When the pomp is passed away,
Thou hast Drawn laughter from A well of secret tears And thence so elvish it rings, –mo… And sweet.
What words Are left thee then Who hast squandered on thy Forgetfulness eternity’s I Love?
Never the nightingale, Oh, my dear, Never again the lark Thou wilt hear; Though dusk and the morning still
Guardian Of The Treasure Of Sol… And Keeper Of the Prophet’s Armo… My tent A vapour that The wind dispels and but
Too far afield thy search. Nay, t… At thine own elbow potent Memory… Thy double, and eternity is cupped In the pale hollow of those ghostl…
With night’s Dim veil and blue I will cover my eyes, I will bind close my eyes that are So weary.
Oh Lady, let the sad tears fall To speak thy pain, Gently as through the silver dusk The silver rain. Oh, let thy bosom breathe its grie…
A-sway, On red rose, A golden butterfly. . And on my heart a butterfly Night-wing’d.
For Aubrey Beardsley’s picture Pierrot is dying: Tiptoe in, Finger touched to lip, Harlequin,
Was it love breathed on us as on t… Dawn breathes for a short space an… Or loved we never at all who but m… With too dim vision the guarded my… Were we unfaithful or were we unwi…
I have minded me Of the noon-day brightness, And the cricket’s drowsy Singing in the sunshine. . I have minded me
How can you lie so still? All day… And never a blade of all the green… To show where restlessly you toss… And fling a desperate arm or draw… Stiffened and aching from their lo…