#English #Women #XXCentury
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…
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…
There is a fish, that quivers in t… itself a shadow, but its shadow, c… Catch it again and again, it still… Against the flowing stream, its li… with death - the impulse and the f…
Day is the hero’s shield, Achilles’ field, The light days are the angels. We the seed. Against eternal light and gorgon’s…
In my first sleep I came to the river And looked down Through the clear water - Only in dream
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,
Where are those dazzling hills tou… Those crags in childhood that I u… Hidden, hidden under mist is yonde… Hidden is the heart. A day of cloud, a lifetime falls b…
Reaching down arm-deep into bright… I gathered on white sand under wav… Shells, drifted up on beaches wher… Inhabit a finite world of years an… I reached my arm down a myriad yea…
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…
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…
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…
If you go deep Into the heart What do you find there? Fear, fear, Fear of the jaws of the rock,
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…
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…