#Americans #Women
Every day, Every day, Tell the hours By their shadows, By their shadows.
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…
Nor stars . . the dark . . and in The dark the grey Ghost glimmer of the olive trees The black straight rows Of Cypresses.
Burdock, Blue aconite, And thistle and thorn. .of these Singing I wreathe my pretty wreat… O’death.
A flickering light near spent Her pale hand bore. Have you seen Angelique? Will she know the place Dead feet must find,
The long night through and still a… Estranged from eyes that very wear… Makes blind to dawn.
More dim than wining moon Thy face, mort faint Than is the falling wind Thy voice, yet do Thine eyes most strangely glow,
Guardian Of The Treasure Of Sol… And Keeper Of the Prophet’s Armo… My tent A vapour that The wind dispels and but
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…
Art thou Not kin to him Who loved Mark’s wife and both Died for it? O, thou harper in Green woods?
Little my lacking fortunes show For this to eat and that to wear; Yet laughing, Soul, and gaily go! An obol pays the Stygian fare. London, 1910
Little Sister Rose-Marie, Will thy feet as willing-light Run through Paradise, I wonder, As they run the blue skies under, Willing feet, so airy-light?
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
Look up . . . From bleakening hills Blows down the light, first breath Of wintry wind . . . look up, and… The snow!
With swift Great sweep of her Magnificent arm my pain Clanged back the doors that shut m… From life.