Sailing Ships (Victoria Sackville-West Poems)
Lying on Downs above the wrinkling bayI with the kestrels shared the cleanly day,The candid day; wind-shaven, brindled turf;Tall cliffs; ...
Lying on Downs above the wrinkling bayI with the kestrels shared the cleanly day,The candid day; wind-shaven, brindled turf;Tall cliffs; ...
This world of wonders, where our lot is cast,Hath far more ends than one. A man may standOn the bluff ...
Leodogran, the King of Cameliard, Had one fair daughter, and none other child;And she was the fairest of all flesh ...
Oh the dear summer evening! How the air is mellow with the delicate breath of flowers and wafts of hay ...
Now with a humming from the greening skies,Sphinx moths with course set true,Shoot forth, torpedoes with a spinning screw,And bulbous ...
MY son, at last the fateful day has come For us to part. The hours have nearly run.May God ...
Nigh the mouldering staitheWhere the lads came to bathe,And the tidal river as it passesLicks with salty lipsThe wiry grassesWhere ...
LAST night again we saw him thereBeneath the plane-tree in the Square,Our student neighbour.He watches every evening nowOur garden tennis, ...
There is a wind in Cornwall that I know From any other wind, because it smells Of the warm honey ...
Women have loved before as I love now;At least, in lively chronicles of the past-Of Irish waters by a Cornish ...
Moving from Cheer to Joy, from Joy to All, I take a box And add it to my wild rice, ...
Perched and posed for viewing in your shop smooth and feminine cool metal and shine Bow and breast subtle calf ...
One in thy thousand statues we salute thee On all thy thousand thrones acclaim and claim Who walk in forest ...
Those moments, tasted once and never done, Of long surf breaking in the mid-day sun. A far-off blow-hole booming like ...
The kind old face, the egg-shaped head, The tie, discreetly loud, The loosely fitting shooting clothes, A closely fitting shroud. ...
Dagonet, the fool, whom Gawain in his mood Had made mock-knight of Arthur's Table Round, At Camelot, high above the ...
Queen Guinevere had fled the court, and sat There in the holy house at Almesbury Weeping, none with her save ...
Leodogran, the King of Cameliard, Had one fair daughter, and none other child; And she was the fairest of all ...
Dagonet, the fool, whom Gawain in his mood Had made mock-knight of Arthur's Table Round, At Camelot, high above the ...
THEY tell me, lady, that to-day On that unknown Australian strand - Some time ago, so far away - Another ...
Women have loved before as I love now; At least, in lively chronicles of the past- Of Irish waters by ...
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