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

I came to live in Sophia Street, In a little house in Sophia Stree… With an inch of floor Between door and door And a yard you’d measure in childr…

Today I’d like to be a nun And go and say My rosary beneath the trees out th… In this shy sun

I had a lover who betrayed me. First he implored and then gainsai… Hopeless I dared no more importun… I found new friends, a kinder fort… Silence, indifference did greet me…

To look across at Moira gives me… She has a red tape measure. Her dress is black and all the wor… And I am weary. But that’s like blood—like a thin…

Those must be masts of ships the g… On through the little gap in the p… So far away that seeing almost fai… Those must be masts, the lovely ma… Stripped bare of sails.

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

I went down to post a letter Through the garden, through the ga… All the lovely stars were shining As I went. They were free as I, unhappy

Frolic mountain winds Innocent and shy, Kiss my darling’s cheek As they scurry by. Little fragrant leaves

I used to be afraid to meet The lovers going down our street. I’d try to shrink to half my size And blink and turn away my eyes But now I’m one of them I know

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?

Sometimes I wish that I were Hel… And wise as Pallas, That I might have most royal gift… In love’s sweet chalice. Then I reflect my dear love is no…

This evening I’m alone. I wish there’d be Someone to come along And talk to me. Yet out of all my friends

Dearest, dearest, Bother the slow hours That hold and keep me From the leafy bowers You make more lovely than a storm…