My friend declares Being woman and virgin she Takes small account of periodicity And she is right. Her days are calmly spent

Once I thought my love was worth… If tears came. When the wound is mortal, now I k… Few tears flow.

You who are dead, Do you know They’ve dug up half the irises That used to grow Here in the quadrangle a year ago?

There’s a band in the street, ther… It will play you a tune for a penn… It will play you a tune, you a tun… And you, though you haven’t got an… For the music’s free, and the musi…

In this little school Life goes so sweetly, Day on azure day Is lost completely. No one thinks too much,

When I get up to light the fire, And dress with all the speed I ma… By candle-light, I dread the hour… That go to make a single day. But then I leave my room, and see

Each day I sit in an ill-lighted… To teach a boy; For one hour by the clock great wo… Are our employ. We read St Agnes’ Eve and that m…

Sometimes I lose My power of loving for an hour or… Then I misuse My knowledge of friends’ secrets t… Them far more heartily than others…

I think each year should bring Little fresh songs Like flowers in spring. That they might deck the hours For a brief while

Now I’ve been three days In the place where I am staying, I’ve taken up new ways’€” Land-owning and flute playing. There’s an orchard ground

I cannot be tricked out in lovely… All times, all days. My mind has moods of hating pearl… And jewel-blaze. Nor is the body worthily attired

Every night I hurry home to see If a letter’s there from you to me… Every night I bow my head and say… ‘There’s no word at all from him t…

To Plato’s dictum Assent she lends. All things in common We hold, as friends. I share her riches.

‘I used to have dozens of handkerc… Of finest lawn. I used to have silk shirts and fin… He’s like a faun This darling out-at-elbows Irish…

All day long We sew fine muslin up for you to w… Muslin that women wove for you els… A million strong. Just like flames,