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Nor stars . . the dark . . and in The dark the grey Ghost glimmer of the olive trees The black straight rows Of Cypresses.
‘Boy, lying Where the long grass Edges the pool’s brim, What do you watch There in the water? The blue
Ere the horne’d owl hoot Once and twice and thrice there sh… Go among the blind brown worms News of thy great burial; When the pomp is passed away,
Have yet forgot, sweet birds, How near the heaven’s lie? Drooping, sick-pinion’d, oh Have yet forgot the sky? The air that once I knew
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…
Art thou Not kin to him Who loved Mark’s wife and both Died for it? O, thou harper in Green woods?
Never the nightingale, Oh, my dear, Never again the lark Thou wilt hear; Though dusk and the morning still
Sun and wind and beat of sea, Great lands stretching endlessly’… Where be bonds to bind the free? All the world was made for me!
Madonna, Madonnina Sat by the grey road-side, Saint Joseph her beside, And Our Lord at her breast; Oh they were fain to rest,
Keep thou Thy tearless watch All night but when blue-dawn Breathes on the silver moon, then… Then weep!
Look up . . . From bleakening hills Blows down the light, first breath Of wintry wind . . . look up, and… The snow!
If it Were lighter touch Than petal of flower resting On grass, oh still too heavy it we… Too heavy!
(1) The rose new-opening saith, And the dew of the morning saith, (Fallen leaves and vanished dew) Remember death.
You nor I nor nobody knows Where our daily-taken breath Vanisheth and vanisheth: Where our lost breath’s flying goe… You nor I nor nobody knows.
Is it as plainly in our living sho… By slant and twist, which way the…