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I did not chide him, though I knewThat he was false to me.Chide the exhaling of the dew,The ebbing of the sea,The fading of a rosy hue,—But not..

Hear what the mournful linnets say:‘We built our nest compact and warm,But cruel boys came round our wayAnd took our summerhouse by storm.‘They..

I loved my love from green of SpringUntil sere Autumn's fall;But now that leaves are witheringHow should one love at all?One heart's too smallFor..

Growing in the valeBy the uplands hilly,Growing straight and frail,Lady Daffadowndilly.In a golden crown,And a scant green gownWhile the spring blows..

‘Goodbye in fear, goodbye in sorrow,Goodbye, and all in vain,Never to meet again, my dear -’‘Never to part again.’‘Goodbye today, goodbye..

Am I a stone and not a sheepThat I can stand, O Christ, beneath Thy Cross,To number drop by drop Thy Blood's slow loss,And yet not weep?Not so those..

O happy rosebud bloomingUpon thy parent tree,Nay, thou art too presumingFor soon the earth entombingThy faded charms shall be,And the chill damp..

MORNING and eveningMaids heard the goblins cry:"Come buy our orchard fruits,Come buy, come buy:Apples and quinces,Lemons and oranges,Plump unpecked..

But give me holly, bold and jolly,Honest, prickly, shining holly;Pluck me holly leaf and berryFor the day when I make merry

It's a weary life, it is, she said:Doubly blank in a woman's lot:I wish and I wish I were a man:Or, better then any being, were not:Were nothing at..

Go from me, summer friends, and tarry not:I am no summer friend, but wintry cold,A silly sheep benighted from the fold,A sluggard with a thorn-choked..

The first was like a dream through summer heat,The second like a tedious numbing swoon,While the half-frozen pulses lagged to beatBeneath a winter..

VIWe lack, yet cannot fix upon the lack:Not this, nor that; yet somewhat, certainly.We see the things we do not yearn to seeAround us: and what see..

Fly away, fly away over the sea,Sun-loving swallow, for summer is done;Come again, come again, come back to me,Bringing the summer and bringing the..

The splendour of the kindling day,The splendor of the setting sun,These move my soul to wend its way,And have doneWith all we grasp and toil amongst..

‘Ferry me across the water,Do, boatman, do.’‘If you've a penny in your purseI'll ferry you.’‘I have a penny in my purse,And my eyes are blue;So ferry..

A blue-eyed phantom far beforeIs laughing, leaping toward the sun:Like lead I chase it evermore,I pant and run.It breaks the sunlight bound on..

'While I sit at the doorSick to gaze withinMine eye weepeth soreFor sorrow and sin:As a tree my sin standsTo darken all lands;Death is the fruit it..

A cold wind stirs the blackthornTo burgeon and to blow,Besprinkling half-green hedgesWith flakes and sprays of snow.Through coldness and through..

Eight o'clock;The postman's knock!Five letters for Papa;One for Lou,And none for you,And three for dear Mamma.

Come to me in the silence of the night;Come in the speaking silence of a dream;Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as brightAs sunlight on a..

There is nothing more that they can doFor all their rage and boast;Caiaphas with his blaspheming crew,Herod with his host,Pontius Pilate in his..

Young Love lies sleepingIn May-time of the year,Among the lilies,Lapped in the tender light:White lambs come grazing,White doves come building..

Where sunless rivers weepTheir waves into the deep,She sleeps a charmed sleep:Awake her not.Led by a single star,She came from very farTo seek where..

I love and love not: Lord, it breaks my heartTo love and not to love.Thou veiled within Thy glory, gone apartInto Thy shrine, which is above,Dost..