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A-sway, On red rose, A golden butterfly. . And on my heart a butterfly Night-wing’d.
Hear thou my lamentation, Eros, Aphrodite’s son! My heart is broken and my days are… Where the woods are dark and the s… Eros!
A flickering light near spent Her pale hand bore. Have you seen Angelique? Will she know the place Dead feet must find,
Dost thou Not feel them slip, How cold! how cold! the moon’s Thin wavering finger-tips, along Thy throat?
But me They cannot touch, Old age and death. .the strange And ignominious end of old Dead folk!
I have no heart for noon-tide and… But I will take me where more ten… Shakes, fold on fold, her dewy dar… And shelters me that I may weep i… And feel no pitying eyes, and hear…
Madonna, Madonnina Sat by the grey road-side, Saint Joseph her beside, And Our Lord at her breast; Oh they were fain to rest,
Behold her, Running through the waves Eager to reach the land; The water laps her, Sun and wind are on her,
The sun is warm today, O Romulus, and on Thine older Palentine the birds Still sing.
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…
Still as On windless nights The moon-cast shadows are, So still will be my heart when I Am dead.
Peter stands by the gate, And Michael by the throne. ‘Peter, I would pass the gate And come before the throne.’ ‘Whose spirit prayed never at the…
The long night through and still a… Estranged from eyes that very wear… Makes blind to dawn.
The immemorial grief of all years Burdes my heart sorely, and the ye… Of slow eternal crying stain my ch… Forever and forever my soul speaks Saying: I am thy self: Look on me…
Have yet forgot, sweet birds, How near the heaven’s lie? Drooping, sick-pinion’d, oh Have yet forgot the sky? The air that once I knew