“We climbed that hill” (Lesbia Harford Poems)
We climbed that hill,The road flushed red in prideAt being beauty's boundary. Either sideStretched beauty, beauty ever, beauty still.For on ...
We climbed that hill,The road flushed red in prideAt being beauty's boundary. Either sideStretched beauty, beauty ever, beauty still.For on ...
I'm like all lovers, wanting love to beA very mighty thing for you and me.In certain moods your love should ...
I must be dreaming through the daysAnd see the world with childish eyesIf I'd go singing all my lifeAnd my ...
When my lover put the sea between usAnd went wandering in ItalyMy poor silly heart miscalled his journey-"Leaving me".Towns of ...
And is love very strong where honour rules?Would the world ever speak of Lancelot's loveOr Tristram's love had they put ...
He looks in my heart and the image thereIs himself, himself, than himself more fair.And he thinks of my heart ...
I sit at my machine,Hour long beside me Vera aged nineteen,Babbles her sweet and innocent tale of sex.Her boy, she ...
The love I look forCould not come from you.My mind is set to fallAt Peterloo.But you'ld protect me,I'd be safe ...
They used to sayOur mother brought us up like hot-house flowers,From day to daySuch wondrous cares were oursHer love inspired.In ...
I know a room that's dark in daytime hours;No sunbeams light it,Whether in months of gloom or months of flowers,So ...
When I was still a childI thought my love would beNoble, truthful, brave,And very kind to me.Then all the novels ...
When I am making poetry I'm goodAnd happy then.I live in a deep world of angelhoodAfar from men.And all the ...
Sometimes I think the happiest of love's momentsIs the blest moment of release from loving.The world once more is all ...
She has all Ireland in her blood,All Ireland's need of sword and tears,With memories dim before the flood,And conflicts of ...
Those must be masts of ships the gazer seesOn through the little gap in the park treesSo far away that ...
I count the days until I see you, dear,But the days only.I dare not reckon up the nights and hoursI ...
Sometimes I watch you, mark your brooding eyes,Your grave brow over-weighted with deep thought,Your mouth's straight line - details of ...
Through the swift nightI go to my love.Tram bells are joy bells,Bidding us moveOn a golden pathBeneath balls of fireUp ...
O you, dear trees, you have learned so much of beauty,You must have studied this only the ages long!Men have ...
I have golden shoesTo make me fleet.They are like the windUnderneath my feet.When my lover's kissIs overbold,I can run awayIn ...
I dreamt last night of happy home-comings.Friends I had loved and had believed were deadCame happily to visit me and ...
When I was a child,I felt the fairies' power.Of a sudden my dry lifeWould burst into flower.The skies were my ...
Last night, in a dream, I felt the peculiar anguishKnown to me of old;And there passed me, not much changed, ...
She is not of the fireside,My lovely love;Nor books, nor even a cradle,She bends above.No, she is bent with lashes,Her ...
I had a lover who betrayed me.First he implored and then gainsaid me.Hopeless I dared no more importune.I found new ...
Frolic mountain windsInnocent and shy,Kiss my darling's cheekAs they scurry by.Little fragrant leavesWith the dawn astir,Make a million songsFull of ...
Sometimes I wish that I were Helen-fairAnd wise as Pallas,That I might have most royal gifts to pourIn love's sweet ...
Though I had lost my love,The hills could calm me.Deep in a woodland groveNo loss could harm me.But when I ...
I bought a red hatTo please my lover.He will hardly see itWhen he looks me over,Though it's a fine hat.Yet ...
Once I thought my love was worth the nameIf tears came.When the wound is mortal, now I know,Few tears flow. ...
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