Sonnet XIX: Silent Noon
Sonnet XIX: Silent Noon Your hands lie open in the long fresh grass,— The finger-points look through like rosy blooms: Your eyes smile peace. The pasture […]
READ MORESonnet XL: Severed Selves
Sonnet XL: Severed Selves Two separate divided silences, Which, brought together, would find loving voice; Two glances which together would rejoice In love, now lost like […]
READ MORESonnet XLI : Through Death to Love
Sonnet XLI : Through Death to Love Like labour-laden moonclouds faint to flee From winds that sweep the winter-bitten wold,— Like multiform circumfluence manifold Of night’s […]
READ MORESonnet XLII: Hope Overtaken
Sonnet XLII: Hope Overtaken I deemed thy garments, O my Hope, were grey, So far I viewed thee. Now the space between Is passed at length; […]
READ MORESonnet XLIII: Love and Hope
Sonnet XLIII: Love and Hope Bless love and hope. Full many a withered year Whirled past us, eddying to its chill doomsday; And clasped together where […]
READ MORESonnet XLIV: Cloud and Wind
Sonnet XLIV: Cloud and Wind Love, should I fear death most for you or me? Yet if you die, can I not follow you, Forcing the […]
READ MORESonnet XLV: Secret Parting
Sonnet XLV: Secret Parting Because our talk was of the cloud-control And moon-track of the journeying face of Fate, Her tremulous kisses faltered at love’s gate […]
READ MORESonnet XLVI: Parted Love
Sonnet XLVI: Parted Love What shall be said of this embattled day And armèd occupation of this night By all thy foes beleaguered,—now when sight Nor […]
READ MORESonnet XLVII: Broken Music
Sonnet XLVII: Broken Music The mother will not turn, who thinks she hears Her nursling’s speech first grow articulate; But breathless with averted eyes elate She […]
READ MORESonnet XLVIII: Death-in-Love
Sonnet XLVIII: Death-in-Love There came an image in Life’s retinue That had Love’s wings and bore his gonfalon: Fair was the web, and nobly wrought thereon, […]
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