I’d like to spend long hours at ho… With a small child to bother me. I’d take her out to see the shops And fuss about my husband’s tea. Instead of this I spend my days

They have a few little hours To study the world’€” Its lovely absence of clouds, Or the thunderbolts hurled By hidden powers’€”

There’s a big park just close to w… Trees in a row And shaggy grass whereon the dead… And in the middle round a great la… The fair yachts sail

My mission in the world Is to prolong Rapture by turning it Into a song. A song of liberty

When I was still a child I thought my love would be Noble, truthful, brave, And very kind to me. Then all the novels said

Today they made a bonfire Close to the cherry tree And smoke like incense drifted Through the white tracery. I think the gardener really

‘Raging winter wind Let loose in springtime What is the message your cold touc… Spite of days and dreams, Warm and easy and sublime,

I was sad Having signed up in a rebel band, Having signed up to rid the land Of a plague it had. For I knew

Flowers have uncountable ways of p… Not solid, but moonlight or sunlig… Primroses strive for the colour of… Dew-besprent. Freesias are flames wherein light…

You who are dead, Do you know They’ve dug up half the irises That used to grow Here in the quadrangle a year ago?

When day is over I climb up the stair, Take off my dark dress, Pull down my hair, Open my window

Maisie’s been holding down her hea… Her little red head. And her poin… Rests on her neck that slips so so… The square-cut low-necked darling… In such a way, since it’s high-wai…

Today when you went up the hill And all that I could see Was just a speck of black and whit… Very far from me, It seemed more strange than words…

I used to be afraid to meet The lovers going down our street. I’d try to shrink to half my size And blink and turn away my eyes But now I’m one of them I know

What were the good of stars if non… But mariners, astronomers and such… The sun and moon and stars were ma… I know that much.