#English #Women #XIXCentury #XXCentury
O LOVE, let us part now! Ours is the tremulous, low-spoken… Ours is the spell of meeting hands… The first, involuntary, sacred kis… Still on our lips in benediction l…
ALL the flight of thoughts here,… Fluttering in the sun, between the… Wheeling, whirling, poising, lovel… How to cage the flying thoughts, m… Set a springe of rhyme, and hope t…
DELIA, my dear, delightful Lady… Time flies in town, you say, New gowns shine fresh as May, The Park is glad and gay, Ah—but the woods are green and sha…
FLUSHED with a crimson sunrise… The fair new year its promise gave… Such dreams we had of love, of dut… Of heights to scale, of foes to br… Oh, how hope’s fire our future lig…
The grass was gray with the moonli… The stones were white as I came t… I came down the path by the thirte… Through the blocks of shade that t… And when I came to the high lych-…
1 The garden mould was damp an… 2 Winter had had his brutal wi… 3 Since over all the year’s co… 4 His devastating legions went… 5 Then Spring’s bright banner…
THROUGH the long night, the dea… Along the dark and haunted way, I knew your hidden face was bright… More bright than any day. And when the faint, insistent moan
THE wild wind wails in the poplar… I sit here alone. O heart of my heart, come hither t… Come to me straight over land and… My soul—my own!
WHEN hides the sun behind a bank… Though well we know the sun is shi… No less the shadow falls on down a… And the bright hues grow dull as b… So, when thou goest from me into t…
BIRDS in the green of my garden Blackbirds and throstle and wren, Wet your dear wings in the tears t… And so to your singing again! Birds in my blossoming orchard,
COME home, come home, for your e… With the glare of the noonday sun, And nothing looks as it did before… And the best of the day is done. You have played your match, and ri…
NOW the far waves roll nearer and… The wind’s awake, the pitiless win… It shrieks the menace that I dare… Soon at my feet the angry waves wi… In desolating wrath—and here I st…
In the wood of lost causes, the va… Old hopes, like dead leaves, choke… Dark pinions fold dank round the s… ‘It is night, it is night, it has… Thou hast dreamed of the day, of t…
COME to-night in a dream to-nigh… Come as you used to do, Come in the gown, in the gown of w… Come in the ribbon of blue; Come in the virgin’s colours you w…
LIKE crimson lamps the tulips sw… The lily flowers their incense bri… The daisies votive garlands fling Before the altar of the Spring. And you and I in this green May,