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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.
I dreamt last night of happy home-… Friends I had loved and had belie… Came happily to visit me and said I was a part of their fair home-co… It’s strange that I should dream…
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…
Just now, as warm day faded from o… Hosts of archangels, fleet On lighting-winged feet Passed by, all glimmering in the b… Sweet angels, bringing no blinding…
I know a room that’s dark in dayti… No sunbeams light it, Whether in months of gloom or mont… So people slight it. Yet in the noon of each succeeding…
When Gertie came in To work today She was much less weary And far more gay. We asked her the reason
Oh, oh Rosalie, Oh, oh Rosalie, What would you have of me? Oh, oh Rosalie. I have kisses fine,
You may have other loves, Red mouths to kiss. Why should you lose That loveliness for this? No loveliness of mine
One comes to love the little saint… As years go by. One learns to love the little sain… ‘O hear me sigh, St. Anthony,
Once I thought my love was worth… If tears came. When the wound is mortal, now I k… Few tears flow.
This morning I got up before the… Had seized the hill, And scrambled heart-hot, noisy, pa… In sleep laid still. There they lay helpless under the…
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…
The love I look for Could not come from you. My mind is set to fall At Peterloo. But you’ld protect me,
A lady and I were walking Where waters flow; A lady and I were talking Softly and slow. This is what you were saying,
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,