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Than spring’s new scents The winter’s earliest wind Blows from the hills the first fai… Of Snow. Why have I
Joy! Joy! Joy! The hills are glad, The valleys re-echo with merriment… In my heart is the sound of laught… And my feet dance to the time of i…
A flickering light near spent Her pale hand bore. Have you seen Angelique? Will she know the place Dead feet must find,
‘WHY do You thus devise Evil against her?’ ‘For that She is beautiful, delicate; Therefore.’
Pain ebbs, And like cool balm, An opiate weariness Settles on eye-lids, on relaxed Pale wrists.
With night’s Dim veil and blue I will cover my eyes, I will bind close my eyes that are So weary.
Force and bluster? Mighty threate… Scorn I lightly, - Not for these. Tell me when shall great Orion Catch the flying Pleuades?
Seen on a night in November How frail Above the bulk Of crashing water hangs, Autumn, evanescent, wan,
Ere the horne’d owl hoot Once and twice and thrice there sh… Go among the blind brown worms News of thy great burial; When the pomp is passed away,
Keep thou Thy tearless watch All night but when blue-dawn Breathes on the silver moon, then… Then weep!
With swift Great sweep of her Magnificent arm my pain Clanged back the doors that shut m… From life.
Have yet forgot, sweet birds, How near the heaven’s lie? Drooping, sick-pinion’d, oh Have yet forgot the sky? The air that once I knew
Look up . . . From bleakening hills Blows down the light, first breath Of wintry wind . . . look up, and… The snow!
How can you lie so still? All day… And never a blade of all the green… To show where restlessly you toss… And fling a desperate arm or draw… Stiffened and aching from their lo…
Reap, reap the grain and gather The sweet grapes from the vine; Our Lord’s mother is weeping, She hath nor bread nor wine; She is weeping. The Queen of Hea…