Today I’d like to be a nun And go and say My rosary beneath the trees out th… In this shy sun

O little year, cram full of duty, Rapture and sorrow, too, Show me the way from old paths of… Into the fields of dew. Strange lorn fields where the moon…

O man, O woman, grievest so? Art shut away from all delight, And must thou leave this garden pl… O Eve, O Adam, question not. The God is kind who would be crue…

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?

I saw a flight of sparrows through… Oh, let us rise Out of the weaknesses of our despa… To burning skies. Let us take wings for flight from…

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

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?

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

Sometimes the skirts I push throu… Spread circlewise, strong petalled… And look for the rapt moment of a… Like Buddha’s robe. And I, caught up out of the workr…

And is love very strong where hono… Would the world ever speak of Lan… Or Tristram’s love had they put h… What would you think if Guinevere… And begged for kisses and had begg…

This evening I’m alone. I wish there’d be Someone to come along And talk to me. Yet out of all my friends

They say—priests say— That God loves the world. Maybe he does, When the dew is pearl’d On the emerald grass,

Those must be masts of ships the g… On through the little gap in the p… So far away that seeing almost fai… Those must be masts, the lovely ma… Stripped bare of sails.

A lady has a thousand ways Of doing nothing all her days, And so she thinks that they’re wel… She can be idle and content. But when I have a holiday

I bought a red hat To please my lover. He will hardly see it When he looks me over, Though it’s a fine hat.