#Americans #Women
Never the nightingale, Oh, my dear, Never again the lark Thou wilt hear; Though dusk and the morning still
A-sway, On red rose, A golden butterfly. . And on my heart a butterfly Night-wing’d.
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 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…
Guardian Of The Treasure Of Sol… And Keeper Of the Prophet’s Armo… My tent A vapour that The wind dispels and but
The clustered Gods, the marching… The mighty-limbed, deep-bosomed T… The shimmering grey-gold London f… I wish that Phidias could see!
I know Not these my hands And yet I think there was A woman like me once had hands Like these.
Than spring’s new scents The winter’s earliest wind Blows from the hills the first fai… Of Snow. Why have I
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,
Keep thou Thy tearless watch All night but when blue-dawn Breathes on the silver moon, then… Then weep!
The poet pursues his beautiful the… The preacher his golden beatitude; And I run after a vanishing dream… The glittering, will-o’-the-wispis… Of the properly scholarly attitude…
Oh me, Was there a time When Paradise knew Eve In this sweet guise, so placid and
I have minded me Of the noon-day brightness, And the cricket’s drowsy Singing in the sunshine. . I have minded me
As it Were tissue of silver I’ll wear, O Fate, thy grey, And go mistily radiant, clad Like the moon.
In the cold I will rise, I will b… In waters of ice; myself Will shiver, and shrive myself, Alone in the dawn, and anoint Forehead and feet and hands;