#English #Women #XIXCentury #XXCentury
(Rosamund.) The fairies have been busy while y… They have been laughing where the… They have taught Beauty to the ig… Set tasks of hope to weary wind-to…
Go, since you must, but, Dearest,… That, Honour having bid you go, Your honour, if your life be spent… Shall have a costly monument. This heart, that fire and roses is
I found a starving cat in the stre… It cried for food and a place by t… I carried it home, and I strove t… The claims of its desire. And since its desire was a little…
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-…
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…
SWEET, I have loved before. I k… This longing that invades my days; This shape that haunts life’s busy… I know since long and long ago. This starry mystery of delight
THE white snow veils the earth’s… Strong frost has bound the veil in… Under the wide, clear, dark-blue s… All choked with snow the hollows l… Dead-white the fields—once summer…
FAREWELL! How soon unmeasured… Its leaden clouds between our part… How little to each other now are w… And once how much I dreamed we tw… I, who now stand with eyes undimme…
EYES caught by beauty, fancy by… Sweet possibilities, question, and… What did her smile say? What has… Her standard, what? Am I o’er it… Flutter in meeting—in absence drea…
JOIN hands, my dear, clasp long… Even this present we shall soon ca… And lay among the unforgotten days… Not the less loved because they co… Make haste to put our hasty words…
THESE three grey walls are still… Though the fourth wide wall has cr… Where the sea swept by when the la… And the great waves thundered alon… Under the sailing seagull’s feathe…
Your dear desired grace, Your hands, your lips of red, The wonder of your perfect face Will fade, like sweet rose-petals… When you are dead.
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…
RED tulip-buds last night caresse… The sacred ivory of her breast. She met me, eager to divine What gold-heart bud of hope was mi… Nor eyes nor lips were strong to p…
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…