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As I went, as I went Over the mountains, I heard, I heard, Through cloud-wreath and mist, A hound that was baying -
When I was girl by Nilus stream I watched the deserts stars arise; My lover, he who dreamed the Sphi… Learned all his dreaming from eyes… I bore in Greece a burning name,
A-sway, On red rose, A golden butterfly. . And on my heart a butterfly Night-wing’d.
(1) The rose new-opening saith, And the dew of the morning saith, (Fallen leaves and vanished dew) Remember death.
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…
Burdock, Blue aconite, And thistle and thorn. .of these Singing I wreathe my pretty wreat… O’death.
‘Let me be young,’ the Latmian sh… ‘And let me have on night-time hil… Whom she of Cynthus saw, Heaven’s… And gave his youth and dreams her… What news comrade upon the mountai…
To Walter Savage Landor Ah, Walter, where you lived I rue These days come all too late for m… What matter if her eyes were blue Whose rival is Persephone?
Never the nightingale, Oh, my dear, Never again the lark Thou wilt hear; Though dusk and the morning still
In your Curled petals what ghosts Of blue headlands and seas, What perfumed immortal breath sigh… Of Greece.
A flickering light near spent Her pale hand bore. Have you seen Angelique? Will she know the place Dead feet must find,
JUST now, Out of the strange Still dusk . . . as strange, as st… A white moth flew . . . Why am I… So cold?
These be three silent things: The falling snow . . . the hour Before the dawn . . . the mouth of… Just dead.
I know Not these my hands And yet I think there was A woman like me once had hands Like these.
Avis, the fair, at dawn Rose lightly from her bed, Herself arrayed, Avis, the fait, the maid, In vestiment of lawn;