#English #Women #XIXCentury #XXCentury
NEVER a ring or a lock of hair Or a letter stained with tears, No crown for the princely hour to… To be mocked of the rebel years. Not a spoken vow, not a written pa…
The wine of life was rough and new… But sweet beyond belief, And wrong was false, and right was… The rose was in the leaf. In that good sunlight well we knew
THREE months had passed since sh… The grate of the confessional, and… —The priest—had wondered why she c… To tell her sinless sins—the vanit… Whose valid reason graced her simp…
LIKE an angry sun, like a splend… War gleams down the long years’ tr… They strain at the leash, the dogs… And who shall hold them back? ‘Let loose the pack: we are Engli…
I HAD a star to sing by, a beaut… But when I sang of its splendour… ‘Sweet are your songs, yet the sin… He hymns but stars unbeholden of u… Glow-worms we see and marshlights;…
Under the shadow of a hawthorn bra… Where bluebells draw the sky down… Where, ‘mid brown leaves, the prim… And hidden violets smell of solitu… Beneath green leaves bright-flutte…
THE day was wild with wind and ra… One grey wrapped sky and sea and s… It seemed our marsh would never ag… Wear the rich robes that once it w… The scattered farms looked sad and…
OH! I admit I’m dull and poor, And plain and gloomy, as you tell… And dozens flock around your door Who in all points but one excel me… You smile on them, on me you frown…
WIDE downs all gray, with gray o… Chill fields stripped naked of the… Small fields of rain-wet grass and… Wet, wind-blown trees—and, over al… Does memory lie? For Hope her mis…
NOW veiled in the inviolable past Love lies asleep, who never more w… Nor would you wake him, even for m… Who for your sake pray he sleep so… What good thing had we of him—we w…
OVER the meadow and down the lan… To the gate by the twisted thorn: Your feet should know each turn of… You trod so many many a day, Before the old love was put out of…
_Who Died on October 25th_, 1899. THERE was a day, A horrible Autumn day, When from her home, the home she m… And that day made a nightmare of w…
O thrush, is it true? Your song tells Of a world born anew, Of fields gold with buttercups, wo… With hyacinth bells;
WHEN on the West broke light fro… Then from the splendour and the sh… Renouncing wealth and pleasure, ga… And all the joys of his polluted h… Desiring not the gifts his world c…
RING, bells! flags, fly! and let… Its ecstasy. Let the hid heart in… Lift up your name. God bless you… Lady, who have the noblest crown t… That ever woman wore.