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…

ACROSS the quiet pastures of my… The invading army marched in splen… My few poor forces fled beyond con… Scattered, defeated, hidden in the… My fields were green, their hedges…

WHILE baby Spring sticks daisie… Or Summer laughs with flushed tri… We crush our heart rebellious at e… And smile ‘How, like the season,… But when the last leaf falls in th…

NOW the vexed clouds, wind-driven… Long leaning wings across the sea… The waves creep back bequeathing t… The treasure-house of their desert… And where the nearer waves curl wh…

The South is a dream of flowers With a jewel for sky and sea, Rose-crowns for the dancing hours, Gold fruits upon every tree; But cold from the North The wind…

COME to-night in a dream to-nigh… Come as you used to do, Come in the gown, in the gown of w… Come in the ribbon of blue; Come in the virgin’s colours you w…

There was a garden, very strange a… With all the roses summer never br… The snowy blossom of immortal Spr… Lighted its boughs, and I, even I… There were new heavens, and the ea…

SINCE Faith is a veil that has… And Hope wanders lost where no mo… Since Love is a mirror we break i… In snatching the image our soul ha… What is the use of the Summers an…

KNOWING our needs, hardly knowi… Hear how we cry to you, brothers o… Brothers in nature, pulse, passion… Our sins in you, and your blood in… First in your palace, or last in o…

THE sunshine of your presence lie… On the glad garden of my heart And bids the leaves of silence par… To show the flowers to your dear e… And flower on flower blooms there…

Dear Hubert, if I ever found A wishing-carpet lying round, I’d stand upon it, and I’d say: ‘Take me to Hubert, right away!’ And then we’d travel very far

THIS is Christ’s birthday: long… He lay upon His Mother’s knee, Who kissed and blessed Him soft a… God’s gift to her, as you to me. My baby dear, my little one,

Will you go a-maying, a-maying, a-… Come and be my Queen of May and p… The fields are full of daisy buds… The bird is on the nest, dear, the… ‘If I go with you, if I go a-mayi…

THE lilies in my garden grow, Wide meadows ring my garden round, In that green copse wild violets b… And pale, frail cuckoo flowers are… For all you see and all you hear,

WHEN Love, sweet Love, was tang… I clipped his wings, and dressed h… Made him my little joy for little… And fed him when I had a song to… And then I saw how good life’s go…