The Candle (Katherine Mansfield Poems)
By my bed, on a little round tableThe Grandmother placed a candle.She gave me three kisses telling me they were ...
By my bed, on a little round tableThe Grandmother placed a candle.She gave me three kisses telling me they were ...
Now I am a plant, a weed,Bending and swingingOn a rocky ledge;And now I am a long brown grassFluttering like ...
We started speaking,Looked at each other, then turned away.The tears kept rising to my eyes.But I could not weep.I wanted ...
Is love a light for me? A steady light,A lamp within whose pallid pool I dreamOver old love-books? Or is ...
The pillar box is fat and red,The pillar box is high;It has the flattest sort of headAnd not a nose ...
There is a solemn wind to-night That sings of solemn rain;The trees that have been quiet so long Flutter and start again.The ...
Now folds the Tree of Day its perfect flowers,And every bloom becomes a bud again,Shut and sealed up against the ...
I wish I had not got a cold, The wind is big and wild, I wish that I was very ...
Playing in the fire and twilight together, My little son and I, Suddenly--woefully--I stoop to catch him. "Try, mother, try!" ...
Cabbage tree, cabbage tree, what is the matter? Why are you shaking so? Why do you chatter? Because it is ...
I Ran to the forest for shelter, Breathless, half sobbing; I put my arms round a tree, Pillowed my head ...
Babies must not eat the coal And they must not make grimaces, Nor in party dresses roll And must never ...
Half-Past-Six and I were talking In a very grown-up way; We had got so tired with running That we did ...
And again the flowers are come, And the light shakes, And no tiny voice is dumb, And a bud breaks ...
The further the little girl leaped and ran, The further she longed to be; The white, white fields of jonquil ...
After all the rain, the sun Shines on hill and grassy mead; Fly into the garden, child, You are very ...
Valley of waving broom, O lovely, lovely light, O hear of the world, red-gold! Breast high in the blossom I ...
I Blow across the stagnant world, I blow across the sea, For me, the sailor's flag unfurled, For me, the ...
In the wide bed Under the freen embroidered quilt With flowers and leaves always in soft motion She is like ...
Come, let us all sing very high And all sing very loud And keep on singing in the street Until ...
Heavens above! here's an old tie of your-- Sea-green dragons stamped on a golden ground. Ha! Ha! Ha! What children ...
Most merciful God Look kindly upon An impudent child Who wants sitting on. This evening late I went to the ...
There is a solemn wind to-night That sings of solemn rain; The trees that have been quiet so long Flutter ...
To and fro, to and fro In my little boat I go Sailing far across the sea All alone, just ...
Now it is Loneliness who comes at night Instead of Sleep, to sit beside my bed. Like a tired child ...
"It is cold outside, you will need a coat-- What! this old Arabian shawl! Bind it about your head and ...
There was a child once. He came to play in my garden; He was quite pale and silent. Only when ...
Grant me the moment, the lovely moment That I may lean forth to see The other buds, the other blooms, ...
White, white in the milky night The moon danced over a tree. "Wouldn't it be lovely to swim in the ...
The gulls are mad-in-love with the river, And the river unveils her face and smiles. In her sleep-brooding eyes they ...
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