#English #Women #XIXCentury #XXCentury
Here’s a rose that blows for Chlo… Fair as ever a rose in June was, Now the garden’s silent, snowy, Where the burning summer noon was. In your garden’s summer glory
UNDER our lead we lie While the sun and the snow go by, And our shrouds lie close, lie clo… Like the leaves of a shut white ro… That knows not what summer knows
What was the spell she wove for me… Life was a common useful thing, An eligible building site To hold a house to shelter me. There were no woodlands whispering…
HERE is the dim enchanted wood Your face, a mystery divine, But half revealed, half understood… Appears the counterpart of mine. Beyond the wood the daylight lies;
LET Summer go To other gardens; here we have no… She smiles and beckons, but we tak… Who love not Summer, but bare bou… Set the snow free
Oh, the nights were dark and cold, When my love was gone. And life was hard to hold When my love was gone. I was wise, I never gave
I reach my hand to thee! Stoop; take my hand in thine; Lead me where I would be, Father divine. I do not even know
YOU bring your love too late, dea… I spent my love on worthless toys,… I am a bankrupt trader—dear eyes,… I could have bought your love, dea… My soul has left me widowed, my he…
This was our house. To this we ca… Lighted by love with torch aflame, And in this chamber, door locked f… I held you to my heart at last. This was our house. In this we kn…
WHEN Love, sweet Love, was tang… I clipped his wings, and dressed h… Made him my little joy for little… And fed him when I had a song to… And then I saw how good life’s go…
YOU will not come again Along the deep-banked lane To where the field and fold so lon… You know no more the way To where, so many a day
WE wandered down the meadow way— The path beside the hedge is shady… You did not see the silver may, You talked of Art, my sweet blind… You talked of values and of tone,
I HAD a star to sing by, a beaut… But when I sang of its splendour… ‘Sweet are your songs, yet the sin… He hymns but stars unbeholden of u… Glow-worms we see and marshlights;…
Does the wind sing in your ears at… Rattling the windows and doors of… Do you hear its song as it flies o… Do you feel the kiss that the wind… Or, wrapt in a lamplit quiet, do y…
RING, bells! flags, fly! and let… Its ecstasy. Let the hid heart in… Lift up your name. God bless you… Lady, who have the noblest crown t… That ever woman wore.