#English #Women #XIXCentury #XXCentury
Your touch on my hand is fire, Your lips on my lips are flowers. My darling, my one desire, Dear crown of my days and hours. Dear crown of each hour and day
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;…
THERE’S a grey old church on a… Where three bent yew trees cower, The gipsy roses grow there still, And the thyme and Saint John’s go… The pale blue violets that love th…
‘LOVE me little, love me long,’ Is the burden of my song, And if nothing more may be Little shall suffice for me. But if you could crown with flower…
WAKE, do you wake in the dark in… Window and door not set like the o… Leaning your face through the dark… Stretching your arms to the arms t… Even as I, through the depth of t…
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…
IF Love and I were all alone I might forget to grieve, And for his pleasure and my own Might happier garlands weave; But you sit there, and watch us we…
OUR boat has drifted with the str… That stirs the river’s full sweet… And now she stays where gold flags… By meadow-sweet’s pale foam of blo… Sedge-warblers sing the sun the so…
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…
THE butterfly loves the rose, He flutters around her bed, Till the soft curled leaves unclos… And she raises her darling head. He whispers of dawn and of dew,
THE days, the doubts, the dreams… Are over, not to come again, And from the menace of the night Has dawned the day-star of delight… My baby lies against me pressed—
TWO strangers, from opposing pole… Meet in the torrid zone of Love: And their desire seems set above The limitation of their souls. This is the trap; this is the snar…
CHOKED with ill weeds my garden… Hard was the ground, no bud had he… Yet shone your smile there, with y… ‘Have patience, for some day the f… Some weeds you killed, you made a…
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
22nd January, 1901. THE Queen is dead. God save the… In this his hour of grief, When sorrow gathers memories in a… To lay them on his shoulders as he…