#English #Women #XIXCentury #XXCentury
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…
ONCE I loved, and my heart bowed… Subject and slave, for Love was a… He sat above with sceptre and crow… Turning his eyes from my sorrowing… The laugh of a god on his lips lay…
OUT of the west when the sun was… Clouds of white wings came flying,… Wheeling and whirling they swept a… Into the heart of the eastern gray… But one white dove came straight t…
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
ONE came to me in royal guise With banners flying fair and free But many griefs had made me wise And I refused to bow the knee. Then one drew near who bore the fl…
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…
AMONG the shallows where the san… Is golden and the waves are small, I love to lie, and to my hand How many little treasures fall! What shells and seaweed grace the…
OVER the meadow and down the lan… To the gate by the twisted thorn: Your feet should know each turn of… You trod so many many a day, Before the old love was put out of…
THE little moon is dead, Drowned in the flood of rain That drips from roof of byre and s… And splashes in the lane: The leafless lean-flanked lane whe…
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…
THE long white windows blankly st… Across the sodden, tangled grass, Weed-covered are the pathways wher… No footsteps ever pass; No whispers wake, no kisses die,
THE flood of utter change is loos… Is ours yet, for its coming to pre… Shall we build dams with cautious,… Or stand with idle hands and frigh… And so be whirled all broken from…
WHEN in the west the red sun san… The cypress trees stood up like go… The mother told her little child t… Of the gold trees the heavenly gar… In golden dreams the child sees go…
A LEGEND IN midst of wide green pasture-la… By lines of alders bordering deep-… Where bulrushes and yellow iris gr… And rest and peace, and all the fl…
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…