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2023-12-06Gray Eyes It was April when you came The first time to me, And my first look in your eyes Was like my first look at the sea. We have been together Fou...
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2023-12-06The Mystery Your eyes drink of me, Love makes them shine, Your eyes that lean So close to mine. We have long been lovers, We know the range Of each ot...
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Flame and Shadow(22)
2023-12-06Open Windows Out of the window a sea of green trees Lift their soft boughs like the arms of a dancer, They beckon and call me, "Come out in the s...
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Flame and Shadow(23)
2023-12-06The New Moon Day, you have bruised and beaten me, As rain beats down the bright, proud sea, Beaten my body, bruised my soul, Left me nothing lovely or...
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Flame and Shadow(24)
2023-12-06Eight O'Clock Supper comes at five o'clock, At six, the evening star, My lover comes at eight o'clock —— But eight o'clock...
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Flame and Shadow(25)
2023-12-06Lost Things Oh, I could let the world go by, Its loud new wonders and its wars, But how will I give up the sky When winter dusk is set with stars? And...
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Flame and Shadow(26)
2023-12-06The Broken Field My soul is a dark ploughed field In the cold rain; My soul is a broken field Ploughed by pain. Where grass and bending flowers Were g...
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Flame and Shadow(27)
2023-12-06The Unseen Death went up the hall Unseen by every one, Trailing twilight robes Past the nurse and the nun. He paused at every door And listened to the...
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Flame and Shadow(28)
2023-12-06A Prayer When I am dying, let me know That I loved the blowing snow Although it stung like whips; That I loved all lovely things And I tried to take t...
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Flame and Shadow(29)
2023-12-06Spring Torrents Will it always be like this until I am dead, Every spring must I bear it all again With the first red haze of the budding maple boughs...