#English #Women #XXCentury
I came too late to the hills: they… Winters before I was born of song… Of spell or speech with power of o… The great ash long dead by a roofl… The voice of the crows an inarticu…
Wearing worry about money like a h… I lie down in my bed and wrestle w… My bank-manager could not sanction… But life itself wakes me each morn… Urges me to give although I have…
Where is the seed Of the tree felled, Of the forest burned, Or living root Under ash and cinders?
I saw the sun step like a gentlema… Dressed in black and proud as sin. I saw the sun walk across London Like a young M. P., risen to the… His step was light, his tread was…
This war’s dead heroes, who has se… They rise in smoke above the burni… Faint clouds, dissolving into sky— And who sifting the Libyan sand c… The tracery of a human hand,
Yours is the face that the earth t… Continuous beyond its human featur… The mountain forms that rest again… With your eyes, the reflecting rai… Sees me; forest and flower, bird a…
Strange that the self’s continuu… The Virgin, Aphrodite, and the M… All loves and griefs, successive d… That hold their kingdom in the hum… Abandoned by the gods, woman with…
Primrose, anemone, bluebell, moss Grow in the Kingdom of the Cross And the ash-tree’s purple bud Dresses the spear that sheds his b… With the thorns that pierce his br…
Within the flower there lies a see… Within the seed there springs a tr… Within the tree there spreads a wo… In the wood there burns a fire, And in the fire there melts a ston…
Wanting to know all I overlooked each particle Containing the whole Unknowable. Intent on one great love, perfect,
If you go deep Into the heart What do you find there? Fear, fear, Fear of the jaws of the rock,
O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of l… but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees. It is a love in darkness wrought
Night comes, an angel stands Measuring out the time of stars, Still are the winds, and still the… It would be peace to lie Still in the still hours at the an…
In my first sleep I came to the river And looked down Through the clear water - Only in dream
Change Said the sun to the moon, You cannot stay. Change Says the moon to the waters,