#Americans #Women
The long night through and still a… Estranged from eyes that very wear… Makes blind to dawn.
Sea-foam And coral! Oh, I’ll Climb the great pasture rocks And dream me mermaid in the sun’s Gold flood.
Well and If day on day Follows and weary year On year . . . and ever days and ye… Well?
What words Are left thee then Who hast squandered on thy Forgetfulness eternity’s I Love?
Oh me, Was there a time When Paradise knew Eve In this sweet guise, so placid and
White doves of Cytherea, by your… Across the blue Heaven’s bluest h… And by your certain homing to Lov… Still to be true and ever true -…
Madonna, Madonnina Sat by the grey road-side, Saint Joseph her beside, And Our Lord at her breast; Oh they were fain to rest,
Seen on a night in November How frail Above the bulk Of crashing water hangs, Autumn, evanescent, wan,
And the centurion who stood by sai… Truly this was a son of God. Not long ago but everywhere I go There is a hill and a black windy… Portent of hill, sky, day’s eclips…
Fugitive, wistful, Pausing at edge of her going, Autumn, the maiden, turns, Leans to the earth with ineffable Gesture. Ah, more than
I know Not these my hands And yet I think there was A woman like me once had hands Like these.
JUST now, Out of the strange Still dusk . . . as strange, as st… A white moth flew . . . Why am I… So cold?
Heard ye the maidens Went through the meadows, Early, O, early, While yet the dew was Wet on the grass?
My songs to sell, sweet maid! I pray you buy. Here’s one will win a lady’s tears… Here’s one will make her gay, Here’s one will charm your true lo…
Grey gaolers are my griefs That will not let me free; The bitterness of tears Is warder unto me. I may not leap or run;