“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 ...
Standing on tiptoe, head back, eyes and armUpraised, Kate groped to reach the higher shelf.Her sleeve slid up like darkness ...
Do you remember still the little songI mumbled on the hill at Aura, howI told you it was made for ...
This morning I got up before the sunHad seized the hill,And scrambled heart-hot, noisy, past each oneIn sleep laid still.There ...
"I want a parlourmaid.""Well, let me seeIf you were God, what kind of maid she'd be.""She would be tall,She would ...
Each day I sit in an ill-lighted roomTo teach a boy;For one hour by the clock great words and dreamsAre ...
One summer day, along the street,Men pruned the gumsTo make them neat.The tender branches, white with flowers,Lay in the sunFor ...
I'm like all lovers, wanting love to beA very mighty thing for you and me.In certain moods your love should ...
I in the library,Looking for books to read,Pulled one out twice to seeIf it fulfilled my need.Butler had written thisAutobiography.Which ...
Miss Murphy has blue eyes and blue-black hair,Her machine's opposite mineSo I can stareAt her pale face and shining blue-black ...
I dare not leave the splendid townTo go where morning meadows are,For somewhere here the Future's hidIn factory, shop, or ...
I must be dreaming through the daysAnd see the world with childish eyesIf I'd go singing all my lifeAnd my ...
He has picked grapes in the sun. Oh it seemsLike a fairy tale,Like a tale of dreams."He in his slender ...
Oh, oh Rosalie,Oh, oh Rosalie,What would you have of me?Oh, oh Rosalie.I have kisses fine,I have kisses fine.Will you take ...
The lilies in the garden walkAre out today.The nuns all came to look at them,To look and sayThey wouldn't last ...
When my lover put the sea between usAnd went wandering in ItalyMy poor silly heart miscalled his journey-"Leaving me".Towns of ...
There's a big park just close to where we live -Trees in a rowAnd shaggy grass whereon the dead leaves ...
And is love very strong where honour rules?Would the world ever speak of Lancelot's loveOr Tristram's love had they put ...
My friend declaresBeing woman and virgin sheTakes small account of periodicityAnd she is right.Her days are calmly spentFor her sex-function ...
Green and blueFirst-named of colours believe these two.They first of colours by men were seenThis grass colour, tree colour,Sky colour, ...
He looks in my heart and the image thereIs himself, himself, than himself more fair.And he thinks of my heart ...
He's out of work!I tell myself a change should mean a chance,And he must look for changes to advance,And he, ...
Maisie's been holding down her head all day,Her little red head. And her pointed chinRests on her neck that slips ...
I sit at my machine,Hour long beside me Vera aged nineteen,Babbles her sweet and innocent tale of sex.Her boy, she ...
This year I have seen autumn with new eyes,Glimpsed hitherto undreamt of mysteriesIn the slow ripening of the town-bred trees;Horse-chestnut ...
Now I've been three daysIn the place where I am staying,I've taken up new ways-Land-owning and flute playing.There's an orchard ...
Sometimes I can seeWhen I teachHalf my children talkEach to each.Then I almost wishI could beVery fierce and theyScared of ...
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 am making great big skirtsFor great big women-Amazons who've fed and sleptThemselves inhuman.Such long skirts, not less than twoAnd ...
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