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A Last Confession
2023-12-06What lively lad most pleasured me Of all that with me lay? I answer that I gave my soul And loved in misery, But had great pleasure with a lad That I ...
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Meeting
2023-12-06Hidden by old age awhile In masker‘s cloak and hood, Each hating what the other loved, Face to face we stood: ‘That I have met with such,&...
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From the ''Antigone''
2023-12-06Overcome—O bitter sweetness, Inhabitant of the soft cheek of a girl— The rich man and his affairs, The fat flocks and the fields‘ fa...
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The Song of the Happy Shepherd
2023-12-06The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed; Grey Truth is now her painted toy; Yet still she turns ...
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The Sad Shepherd
2023-12-06There was a man whom Sorrow named his friend, And he, of his high comrade Sorrow dreaming, Went walking with slow steps along the gleaming And humming...
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The Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes
2023-12-06‘What do you make so fair and bright?’ ‘I make the cloak of Sorrow: O lovely to see in all men‘s sight Shall be the cloak of S...
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The Indian upon God
2023-12-06I passed along the water‘s edge below the humid trees, My spirit rocked in evening light, the rushes round my knees, My spirit rocked in sleep a...
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The Indian to His Love
2023-12-06The island dreams under the dawn And great boughs drop tranquillity; The peahens dance on a smooth lawn, A parrot sways upon a tree, Raging at his own...
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The Falling of the Leaves
2023-12-06Autumn is over the long leaves that love us, And over the mice in the barley sheaves; Yellow the leaves of the rowan above us, And yellow the wet wild...
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Ephemera
2023-12-06‘Your eyes that once were never weary of mine Are bowed in sorrow under pendulous lids, Because our love is waning.‘ And then she: ‘...