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As it Were tissue of silver I’ll wear, O Fate, thy grey, And go mistily radiant, clad Like the moon.
You nor I nor nobody knows Where our daily-taken breath Vanisheth and vanisheth: Where our lost breath’s flying goe… You nor I nor nobody knows.
I have minded me Of the noon-day brightness, And the cricket’s drowsy Singing in the sunshine. . I have minded me
Burdock, Blue aconite, And thistle and thorn. .of these Singing I wreathe my pretty wreat… O’death.
In your Curled petals what ghosts Of blue headlands and seas, What perfumed immortal breath sigh… Of Greece.
‘Let me be young,’ the Latmian sh… ‘And let me have on night-time hil… Whom she of Cynthus saw, Heaven’s… And gave his youth and dreams her… What news comrade upon the mountai…
A-sway, On red rose, A golden butterfly. . And on my heart a butterfly Night-wing’d.
Seen on a night in November How frail Above the bulk Of crashing water hangs, Autumn, evanescent, wan,
Heard ye the maidens Went through the meadows, Early, O, early, While yet the dew was Wet on the grass?
All day, all day I brush My golden strands of hair; All day I wait and wait.. Ah, who is there? Who calls? Who calls? The gold
If it Were lighter touch Than petal of flower resting On grass, oh still too heavy it we… Too heavy!
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…
When I was girl by Nilus stream I watched the deserts stars arise; My lover, he who dreamed the Sphi… Learned all his dreaming from eyes… I bore in Greece a burning name,
Every day, Every day, Tell the hours By their shadows, By their shadows.
What words Are left thee then Who hast squandered on thy Forgetfulness eternity’s I Love?