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I have two wings To raise me to the skies. Withouten these My soul could never rise. My shining friends,
I think each year should bring Little fresh songs Like flowers in spring. That they might deck the hours For a brief while
My lovely pixie, my good companion… You do not love me, bed-mate of mi… Save as a child loves, Careless of loving, Rather preferring raspberry wine.
The little ships are dearer than t… For they sail in strange places, They lean nearer the green waters. One may count by wavelets how the… From their decks; and hear the Se…
Sometimes I watch you, mark your… Your grave brow over-weighted with… Your mouth’s straight line—details… That all aloofness in your aspect… And yet when in the dark down from…
I have golden shoes To make me fleet. They are like the wind Underneath my feet. When my lover’s kiss
They used to say Our mother brought us up like hot-… From day to day Such wondrous cares were ours Her love inspired.
Up in my room on my unmade bed I sat and read. There was work waiting for me belo… I didn’t go. For in my little green room the so…
When day is over I climb up the stair, Take off my dark dress, Pull down my hair, Open my window
O sweet and fair! These words are… O sweet and fair! A year ago I’ld… Some better words of praise Than sweet and fair. O sweet and fair, and weak, and mo…
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…
Sometimes I am too tired To think of you. Today was such a day, But then I knew Today, for certain, you’d be weary…
When I go into town at half past… Great crowds of people stream acro… Hurrying, although it’s only half… They are the invisible people of t… When you go in to town about eleve…
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.
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.