#English #Women #XXCentury
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…
Day is the hero’s shield, Achilles’ field, The light days are the angels. We the seed. Against eternal light and gorgon’s…
Wanting to know all I overlooked each particle Containing the whole Unknowable. Intent on one great love, perfect,
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…
If you go deep Into the heart What do you find there? Fear, fear, Fear of the jaws of the rock,
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…
Behind the tree, behind the house,… In the presence that I cannot see Otherwise than as house and stars… Tree, house and stars Extend to infinity within themselv…
In my first sleep I came to the river And looked down Through the clear water - Only in dream
From star to star, from sun and sp… And almost audible flowers whose s… And in the common meadows, springs… Now the lilies open, and the rose Released by summer from the harmle…
A Gaelic bard they praise who in… Named the one indivisible soul of… For what are the bens and the glen… Immeasurable complexities of soul? What are these isles but a song su…
Earth no longer hymns the Creator, the seven days of wonder, the Garden is over— all the stories are told,
God in me is the fury on the bare… God in me shakes the interior king… God in me is the fire wherein I b… God in me swirling cloud and drivi… God in me cries a lonely nameless…
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…
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?