#Australians #Lesbian #Women
I do hate the folk I love– They hurt so. Their least word and act may be Source of woe. ‘Won’t you come to tea with me?’
‘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…
One summer day, along the street, Men pruned the gums To make them neat. The tender branches, white with fl… Lay in the sun
Today I saw A market cart going along the road… High-piled and creaking with a son… Of cabbages. The driver sat
Sometimes the skirts I push throu… Spread circlewise, strong petalled… And look for the rapt moment of a… Like Buddha’s robe. And I, caught up out of the workr…
Each morning I pass on my way to… A clock in a tower And I look towards it with anxiou… To make sure of the hour. But the sun gets up at the back of…
I made a heaven for you filled wit… Each star a song Meant to give happy music to your… Day and night long. But in your workshop you are close…
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…
Great crane o’ertopping the delica… Why do you seem so fair, Swaying and raising your load with… High in the misty air? You are a wonder of pearl and grey
Old memories waken old desires Infallibly. While we’re alive With eye or ear or sense at all, Sometimes, must love revive. But we’ll not think, when some str…
They used to say Our mother brought us up like hot-… From day to day Such wondrous cares were ours Her love inspired.
I have golden shoes To make me fleet. They are like the wind Underneath my feet. When my lover’s kiss
Though I had lost my love, The hills could calm me. Deep in a woodland grove No loss could harm me. But when I came to town,
They have a few little hours To study the world’ Its lovely absence of clouds, Or the thunderbolts hurled By hidden powers’
I’ve had no man To guard and shelter me, Guide and instruct me From mine infancy. No lord of earth