#English #Women
“How long shall Man be Nature’s f… “Be like those great, gaunt oxen,… Inexorably driven round and round To turn the water-wheel with banda… And as they trudge beneath Egypti…
FLEETER than a tone scarce born That melts away, Sweeter than a dream of morn That shuns the day, Swifter than a rainbow fading out…
THE boding sky was charactered wi… The scripture of the storm—but hig… Where the unfathomed zenith still… A pure expanse of rose-flushed vio… And, kindling into crimson light,…
Only a dream, a beautiful baseless… Only a bright Flash from your eyes, a brief elec… Charged with delight. Only a waking, alone, in the moon’…
LOST amid gloom and solitude, A pool lies hidden in the wood, A pool the autumn rain has made Where flowers with their fair shad… Bare as a beggar’s board, the tree…
No breath of wind stirs in the pai… The meadows are as stirless as the… Like a Saint’s halo golden vapour… Above the restful valley’s garnere… The journeying Sun, like one who…
I WALK about in driving snow, And drizzling rain, splashed o’er… No sign that radiant spring e’en n… Stands at the threshold of the doo… No sign that fragrant violets burn
O moon, large golden summer moon, Hanging between the linden trees, Which in the intermittent breeze Beat with the rhythmic pulse of J… O night-air, scented through and t…
Thy wings swoop darkening round my… And on my brain thy shadow seems t… And hem me round with stifling sol… With chasms of vacuous bloom which… No light of human joy, no song or…
The dead abide with us! Though st… Earth seems to grip them, they are… They have forged our chains of bei… And their invisible hands these ha… Our perishable bodies are the moul…
(Holy Trinity Church.) THE hectic autumn’s dilatory fire Has turned this lime tree to a sev… Which, self consuming, lights the… A death to which all poet souls as…
ONCE we played at love together— Played it smartly, if you please; Lightly, as a windblown feather, Did we stake a heart apiece. Oh, it was delicious fooling!
We met as strangers on life’s lone… And yet it seemed we knew each oth… There was no end to what thou hads… Or to the thousand things I found… My heart, long silent, at thy voic…
Your looks have touched my soul wi… Ineffable emotion; As moonbeams on a stormy night Illume with transitory light A seagull on her lonely flight
Sometimes I wonder if you guess The deep impassioned tenderness Which overflows my heart; The love I never dare confess; Yet hard, yea, harder to repress