Green and blue First-named of colours believe the… They first of colours by men were… This grass colour, tree colour, Sky colour, sea colour,

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,

Across the sea Come homeward ships With freight of boys. And still must we Forgo the joys

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 sit at my machine, Hour long beside me Vera aged nin… Babbles her sweet and innocent tal… Her boy, she hopes, will prove Unlike his father in the act of lo…

‘Raging winter wind Let loose in springtime What is the message your cold touc… Spite of days and dreams, Warm and easy and sublime,

Sometimes I wish that I were Hel… And wise as Pallas, That I might have most royal gift… In love’s sweet chalice. Then I reflect my dear love is no…

Do you remember still the little s… I mumbled on the hill at Aura, ho… I told you it was made for Katie’… When I was fresh from school and… With all the strength of girlhood?…

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

Little girls, You are gay, Little factory girls, At the end of your day. There you stand,

To Plato’s dictum Assent she lends. All things in common We hold, as friends. I share her riches.

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

I count the days until I see you,… But the days only. I dare not reckon up the nights an… I shall be lonely. But when at last I meet you, dear…

Each day I sit in an ill-lighted… To teach a boy; For one hour by the clock great wo… Are our employ. We read St Agnes’ Eve and that m…

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,