Love Poems – Page 114
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Parasite
Good woman: / Don’t love the man. / Love yourself, … -
Traumerei at Ostendorff's
I ate at Ostendorff’s, and saw a dame / With eager golden eyes, paired with a red, / Bald, chilled, old man. Piercing the clatter came … -
A Very Old Song
“daughter, thou art come to die: / Sound be thy sleeping, lass.” / “Well: without lament or cry, … -
A Woman and Her Dead Husband
Ah stern cold man, / How can you lie so relentless hard / While I wash you with weeping water! … -
Fireflies in the Corn
A woman taunts her lover: / LOOK at the little darlings in the corn! / The rye is taller than you, who think yourself … -
Green
The dawn was apple-green, / The sky was green wine held up in the sun, / The moon was a golden petal between. … -
Service of All the Dead
Between the avenue of cypresses / All in their scarlet capes and surplices / Of linen, go the chaunting choristers, … -
Motherhood
Mary, the Christ long slain, passed silently, / Following the children joyously astir / Under the cedrus and the olive-tree, … -
A Statue in a Garden
I was a goddess ere the marble found me. / Wind, wind, delay not! / Waft my spirit where the laurel crowned me! … -
On the Jail Steps
I’ve won the race. / Young man, I’m new! / Old Sallow-face …
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