#Americans #Women
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,
Art thou Not kin to him Who loved Mark’s wife and both Died for it? O, thou harper in Green woods?
If illness’ end be health regained… Will pay you, Asculapeus, when I…
To Walter Savage Landor Ah, Walter, where you lived I rue These days come all too late for m… What matter if her eyes were blue Whose rival is Persephone?
Seen on a night in November How frail Above the bulk Of crashing water hangs, Autumn, evanescent, wan,
‘Boy, lying Where the long grass Edges the pool’s brim, What do you watch There in the water? The blue
Guardian Of The Treasure Of Sol… And Keeper Of the Prophet’s Armo… My tent A vapour that The wind dispels and but
Thou hast Drawn laughter from A well of secret tears And thence so elvish it rings, –mo… And sweet.
Look up . . . From bleakening hills Blows down the light, first breath Of wintry wind . . . look up, and… The snow!
(Girl’s Song) In Babylon, in Nineveh, And long ago, and far away, The lilies and the lotus blew That are my sweet of youth to-day.
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…
With night’s Dim veil and blue I will cover my eyes, I will bind close my eyes that are So weary.
What words Are left thee then Who hast squandered on thy Forgetfulness eternity’s I Love?
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…
A-sway, On red rose, A golden butterfly. . And on my heart a butterfly Night-wing’d.