#English #Women #XIXCentury #XXCentury
WHEN my good-nights and prayers… And I am safe tucked up in bed, I know my guardian angel stands And holds my soul between his hand… I cannot see his wings of light
BIRDS in the green of my garden Blackbirds and throstle and wren, Wet your dear wings in the tears t… And so to your singing again! Birds in my blossoming orchard,
PIPE, shepherds, pipe, the summe… So wreathe your crooks with flower… The world’s in tune to Love and J… The days are rich in hours, In rosy hours, in golden hours—
If you loved me I could trust you… While the sun shone and the wind b… To the utmost of the meshes of the… If you loved me, if you loved me—b… I love you—and I cannot trust you…
THREE months had passed since sh… The grate of the confessional, and… —The priest—had wondered why she c… To tell her sinless sins—the vanit… Whose valid reason graced her simp…
A PRINCESS, sleeping in enchan… Earth springs to waking at Spring… And after winter’s cold, unlovely… Laughs out to find how beautiful s… Spring flings a song across the fi…
LAURELS, bring laurels, sheaves… Till England’s boughs are bare of… Soon comes the flower more rare, m… Than any laurel this year weaves— The Aloe of the hundredth year
FOR A PICTURE BY E. BU… Habes tota quod mente petisti Infelix. IN deep vague spaces of the lonel… She deemed her soulless life was a…
ADIEU, Madame! The moon of May Wanes now above the orchard grey; The white May-blossoms fall like… As Love foretold a month ago— Or was it only yesterday?
Did you deceive me? Did I trust A heart of fire to a heart of dust… What matter? Since once the world… And you gave me the rose of the wo… That was the time to live for! Fl…
IF through the rain and wind alon… Where the wet stone reflects the f… Some weeping autumn night your wan… Lost in a lonely world, should cha… If, passing many doors that welcom…
IMPLORING HER TO BE TRUE MISTRESS of me, mistress of al… And charms that sway men’s hot ung… Receive their tribute—smile at the… I do not ask that you should spare…
DEAR, do you sigh that your love… Laugh with and play with you, Weep with and pray with you, All his life through? Think, O my heart, if you never h…
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…
Life is a night all dark and wild, Yet still stars shine: This moment is a star, my child - Your star and mine. Life is a desert dry and drear,