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There’s a band in the street, ther… It will play you a tune for a penn… It will play you a tune, you a tun… And you, though you haven’t got an… For the music’s free, and the musi…
When I am articled The Law decrees I shall devote my time To stating fees And learning about Actions
I am no mystic. All the ways of G… Are dark to me. I know not if he lived or if he di… In agony. My every act has reference to man.
Somebody brought in lilac, Lilac after rain. Isn’t it strange, belovéd of mine You’ll not see it again? Lilac glad with the sun on it
Oh, oh Rosalie, Oh, oh Rosalie, What would you have of me? Oh, oh Rosalie. I have kisses fine,
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
My darling lies down in her soft w… And she laughs at me. Her laughter has flushed her pale… Her eyes dance with glee. My darling lies close in her warm…
I am making great big skirts For great big women’ Amazons who’ve fed and slept Themselves inhuman. Such long skirts, not less than tw…
All day long We sew fine muslin up for you to w… Muslin that women wove for you els… A million strong. Just like flames,
I have golden shoes To make me fleet. They are like the wind Underneath my feet. When my lover’s kiss
Sometimes I lose My power of loving for an hour or… Then I misuse My knowledge of friends’ secrets t… Them far more heartily than others…
You, whom the grave cannot bind, Shall a song hold you? Still you escape from the mesh Spun to enfold you. Your woven texture of flesh
In this little school Life goes so sweetly, Day on azure day Is lost completely. No one thinks too much,
This evening I’m alone. I wish there’d be Someone to come along And talk to me. Yet out of all my friends
I hate work so That I have found a way Of making one small task outlast t… I will not leave The garden and the sun,