#AmericanWriters
‘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…
Reap, reap the grain and gather The sweet grapes from the vine; Our Lord’s mother is weeping, She hath nor bread nor wine; She is weeping. The Queen of Hea…
Every day, Every day, Tell the hours By their shadows, By their shadows.
A flickering light near spent Her pale hand bore. Have you seen Angelique? Will she know the place Dead feet must find,
Thou beautiful and ivory gates That shut my tears away from me - Even, at last, such refuge yield That great, safe doors of Ebony.
Art thou Not kin to him Who loved Mark’s wife and both Died for it? O, thou harper in Green woods?
JUST now, Out of the strange Still dusk . . . as strange, as st… A white moth flew . . . Why am I… So cold?
Look up . . . From bleakening hills Blows down the light, first breath Of wintry wind . . . look up, and… The snow!
Ere the horne’d owl hoot Once and twice and thrice there sh… Go among the blind brown worms News of thy great burial; When the pomp is passed away,
Than spring’s new scents The winter’s earliest wind Blows from the hills the first fai… Of Snow. Why have I
The long night through and still a… Estranged from eyes that very wear… Makes blind to dawn.
(1) The rose new-opening saith, And the dew of the morning saith, (Fallen leaves and vanished dew) Remember death.
Heard ye the maidens Went through the meadows, Early, O, early, While yet the dew was Wet on the grass?
I know Not these my hands And yet I think there was A woman like me once had hands Like these.
Meet thou the event And terrible happening of Thine end: for thou art come Upon the remote, cold place Of ultimate dissolution and