Love Poems – Page 100
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To an Enemy
I despise my friends more than you. / I would have known myself, but they stood before the mirrors / And painted on them images of the virtues I craved. … -
To a Discarded Steel Rail
Straight strength pitched into the surliness of the ditch, / A soul you have—strength has always delicate secret reasons. / Your soul is a dull question. … -
Night and Morning Songs - My Moon
My moon was lit in an hour of lilies; / The apple-trees seemed older than ever. / It rose from matted trees that sever … -
Night and Morning Songs - Elegiac Mood
From song and dream for ever gone / Are Helen, Helen of Troy, / And Cleopatra made to look upon, … -
Night and Morning Songs - Dawn
A thrush is tapping a stone / With a snail-shell in its beak; / A small bird hangs from a cherry … -
Bird of Passion
Leave the lovely words unsaid; / For another thought is fled / From my dream-entangled mind. … -
Retrospect
In your arms was still delight, / Quiet as a street at night; / And thoughts of you, I do remember, … -
Nineteen-Fourteen - I. Peace
Now, god be thanked who has matched us with his hour, / And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping! / With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power, … -
Nineteen-Fourteen - II. Safety
Dear! of all happy in the hour, most blest / He who has found our hid security, / Assured in the dark tides of the world that rest, … -
Nineteen-Fourteen - III. The Dead
Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! / There’s none of these so lonely and poor of old, / But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold. …
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