Colomen (Mary Webb Poems)
The doves that coo in ColomenAre never heard by mortal men,But when a human creature passesUnderneath the churchyard grasses,In deep ...
The doves that coo in ColomenAre never heard by mortal men,But when a human creature passesUnderneath the churchyard grasses,In deep ...
If I should be the first to go awayOut of the golden sunlight of our peace,When the dear sacrament of ...
They run to meet me, clinging to my dress,The neighbour's children. With a wild unrestAnd sobbings of a strange, fierce ...
Oh, Powers of Love, if still you leanAbove a world so black with hate,Where yet--as it has ever been--The loving ...
Dawn glimmers white beyond the burning hillWhere sunbeams light a fire in every tree.The morning bird is singing clear and ...
Within the doorway of your room to-nightI stood, and saw your little treasures allSet out beneath the golden candle-light,While silver ...
How short a while--eternities gone by--It is since book and candle, half the night,Consumed the hours, and in the first ...
Never any more shall the golden sunMake of your leaves, my dainty one,Ardent shields of silver-green,With cool blue sky set ...
Love me--and I will give into your handsThe rare, enamelled jewels of my lands,Flowers red and blue,Tender with air and ...
O Bee!While I believed you gathering in the sunNectar so busily,What have you done?My violet,More white than well-bleached linen, you ...
The green pine-needles shiver glassily,Each cased in ice. Harsh winter, grey and dun,Shuts out the sun.But with live, scarlet fire,Enfolding ...
Be still, you little leaves! nor tell your sorrowTo any passing bat or hovering owlOr the low-splashing, restless water-fowl.You flowering ...
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