#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…
THIS is a place where men laid t… Each with his life-tale of good or… Here prayers were murmured and hot… And passionate anguish moaned its… Silent now is each voice that crie…
WHEN all the weary flowers, Worn out with sunlit hours, Droop o’er the garden beds Their little sleepy heads, The dewy dusk on quiet wings comes…
WE might have held back from Love… For many a wistful sad-and-happy d… Tasting the voluntary sweet delay Of lips that at the cup’s edge tou… Yet will not drink, knowing that w…
WHEN the corn is green and the p… And the fields are crimson with lo… When the elms are black deep overh… And the shade lies cool where the… When the blackbird whistles the so…
There was never winter, summer onl… Pink and white and red, Shining down the warm rich garden… Quiet trees and lawns of dappled s… Silver lilies, whisper of mignonet…
AND I shall lie alone at last, Clear of the stream that ran so fa… And feel the flower roots in my ha… And in my hands the roots of trees… Myself wrapt in the ungrudging pea…
So good-bye! This is where we end it, you and… Life’s to live, you know, and deat… So good-bye! I was yours
IF I only had time! I could make you a rhyme. But my time is kept flying By smiling and sighing And living and dying for you.
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…
WHEN head and hands and heart al… When Hope with folded wings sinks… When all thy striving fails to dis… From out wrong’s skein the golden… When all thy knowledge seems a mar…
IF one should wake one’s frozen f… In sunlight of her radiant eyes, Bid it forget its dream of death, In this new dream of Paradise, Bid it forget the long, slow pain,
So silent is the world to-night The lamp gives silence out like li… The latticed windows open wide Show silence, like the night, outs… The nightingale’s faint song draws…
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…
COME forth! the world’s aflame w… The shout of bells fills full the… This is the crown of all your gold… More than all other hours august a… This did the years prepare,