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Behold her, Running through the waves Eager to reach the land; The water laps her, Sun and wind are on her,
Still as On windless nights The moon-cast shadows are, So still will be my heart when I Am dead.
The clustered Gods, the marching… The mighty-limbed, deep-bosomed T… The shimmering grey-gold London f… I wish that Phidias could see!
JUST now, Out of the strange Still dusk . . . as strange, as st… A white moth flew . . . Why am I… So cold?
So may you sleep alway, My baby, my dear son: Amen, Amen, Amen. My baby, my dear son.
Listen . . . With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break f… And fall.
A-sway, On red rose, A golden butterfly. . And on my heart a butterfly Night-wing’d.
As I went, as I went Over the mountains, I heard, I heard, Through cloud-wreath and mist, A hound that was baying -
Sun and wind and beat of sea, Great lands stretching endlessly’… Where be bonds to bind the free? All the world was made for me!
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…
Thou hast Drawn laughter from A well of secret tears And thence so elvish it rings, –mo… And sweet.
Than spring’s new scents The winter’s earliest wind Blows from the hills the first fai… Of Snow. Why have I
As it Were tissue of silver I’ll wear, O Fate, thy grey, And go mistily radiant, clad Like the moon.
In your Curled petals what ghosts Of blue headlands and seas, What perfumed immortal breath sigh… Of Greece.
‘There’s be no roof to shelter you… You’ll have no where to lay your h… And who will get your food for you… Star-dust pays for no man’s bread. So, Jacky, come give me your fidd…