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,

Now all the lovely days are past, The hours of sun and leagues of se… And starry nights that lay between Yourself and me. Our boat has left the sea behind.

He has picked grapes in the sun.… Like a fairy tale, Like a tale of dreams. ‘He in his slender youth, with vin… Under a blazing sky’—

I’ve had no man To guard and shelter me, Guide and instruct me From mine infancy. No lord of earth

I’d love to have you on a rainy da… Tucked in a chair, my head against… To sit and dream with. Sometime y… My home-sharer whom rain can’t kee…

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

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…

O great golden head lie in my lap, Sweet, sweet, lie there. Sleep and I’ll watch thee lest ev… Sweet, sweet and fair. O great golden head lie on my brea…

The lilies in the garden walk Are out today. The nuns all came to look at them, To look and say They wouldn’t last to deck the cri…

We watched the dawn breaking acros… While just above us hung the eveni… The nearer waters took a hint of w… And clouds and waves together mass… Narrowed our morning world of pall…

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,

I found an orchid in the valley fa… And named it for us both, And left it there. Two flowers upon one stem, white-s… I couldn’t pull them up,

Dearest, dearest, Bother the slow hours That hold and keep me From the leafy bowers You make more lovely than a storm…