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In answer to those who have said t… give no personal love to their cou… ENGLAND, my country, austere in… Set in the seat of the mighty, wie… Have we but sung of your glory, fi…
THE poor ghost came through the w… And passed down the old dear road… Thin cowered the hedges, the tall… Like little children that shrank a… The wind was wild and the night wa…
The South is a dream of flowers With a jewel for sky and sea, Rose-crowns for the dancing hours, Gold fruits upon every tree; But cold from the North The wind…
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!
NOT to the terrible God, avengin… Whose altars struck their roots in… Not to the jealous God, whose mer… The infamy of unclean years withst… But to the God who lit the evenin…
IF I might build a palace, fair With every joy of soul and sense, And set my heart as sentry there To guard your happy innocence— If I might plant a hedge so stron…
ALL summer-time you said: ‘Love has no need of shelter nor o… For all the flowers take pity on h… And lead him to his scented rose-s… ‘He is a king,’ you said.
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 wine of life was rough and new… But sweet beyond belief, And wrong was false, and right was… The rose was in the leaf. In that good sunlight well we knew
ADIEU, Madame! The moon of May Wanes now above the orchard grey; The white May-blossoms fall like… As Love foretold a month ago— Or was it only yesterday?
If I could make a pillow for your… Soft, pleasant, filled with every… If I could lay a carpet where you… Of all my life’s most radiant fanc… And spread my love as canopy above…
‘GIVE me thy dreams,’ she said,… With empty hands and very poor, Watched my fair flowery visions di… Upon the temple’s marble floor. ‘Give joy,’ she said. I let joy g…
THE child was yours and none of m… And yet you gave it me to keep, And bade me sew it raiment fine, And wrap my kisses round its sleep… I carried it upon my breast,
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…
AND you could leave me now— After the first remembered whisper… Which sings for ever and ever in m… The vow which God among His Ange… After the long-drawn years,
