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The Wheel
2023-12-06Through winter-time we call on spring, And through the spring on summer call, And when abounding hedges ring Declare that winter‘s best of all; ...
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Youth and Age
2023-12-06Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest....
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The New Faces
2023-12-06If you, that have grown old, were the first dead, Neither catalpa tree nor scented lime Should hear my living feet, nor would I tread Where we wrought...
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A Prayer for My Son
2023-12-06Bid a strong ghost stand at the head That my Michael may sleep sound, Nor cry, nor turn in the bed Till his morning meal come round; And may departing...
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Two Songs from a Play
2023-12-06I I saw a staring virgin stand Where holy Dionysus died, And tear the heart out of his side, And lay the heart upon her hand And bear that beating hea...
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Fragments
2023-12-06I Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side. II Where got I that truth? Out of a medium‘s mouth, Out...
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The light of evening, Lissadell, Great windows open to the south, Two girls in silk kimonos, both Beautiful, one a gazelle. But a raving autumn shears...
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Blood and the Moon
2023-12-06I Blessed be this place, More blessed still this tower; A bloody, arrogant power Rose out of the race Uttering, mastering it, Rose like these walls fr...
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Oil and Blood
2023-12-06In tombs of gold and lapis lazuli Bodies of holy men and women exude Miraculous oil, odour of violet. But under heavy loads of trampled clay Lie bodie...
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The Persons of the Play
2023-12-06The Earl of Caversham, KG Mr Alfred Bishop Viscount Goring (his son) Mr Charles H. Hawtrey Sir Robert Chiltern, Bt. (Under- Secretary for Foreign Affa...