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Book: Renascence and Other Poems

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  • Sorrow
      Sorrow like a ceaseless rain
        Beats upon my heart.
    11 lines, 1 comment
  • Ashes Of Life
    Love has gone and left me and the days are all alike;
        Eat I must, and sleep I will, — and would that night we
    11 lines, 3 comments
  • Time Does Not Bring Relief
    Time does not bring relief; you all have lied
    Who told me time would ease me of my pain!
    13 lines
  • Kin To Sorrow
    Am I kin to Sorrow,
    That so oft
    15 lines
  • The Little Ghost
    I knew her for a little ghost
      That in my garden walked;
    27 lines, 1 comment
  • Interim
    The room is full of you!--As I came in
    And closed the door behind me, all at once
    211 lines, 1 comment
  • Witch-Wife
    She is neither pink nor pale,
      And she never will be all mine;
    11 lines
  • The Suicide
    "Curse thee, Life, I will live with thee no more!
    Thou hast mocked me, starved me, beat my body sore!
    147 lines, 1 comment
  • Indifference
    I said,--for Love was laggard, O, Love was slow to come,--
    "I'll hear his step and know his step when I am warm in bed;
    8 lines, 1 comment
  • The Shroud
    Death, I say, my heart is bowed
    Unto thine,--O mother!
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • When The Year Grows Old
    I cannot but remember
    When the year grows old —
    33 lines
  • Renascence
    All I could see from where I stood
    Was three long mountains and a wood;
    218 lines, 8 comments
  • Afternoon On A Hill
    I will be the gladdest thing
    Under the sun!
    13 lines, 1 comment
  • Three Songs Of Shattering
    The first rose on my rose-tree
    Budded, bloomed, and shattered,
    38 lines, 1 comment
  • The Dream
    Love, if I weep it will not matter,
    And if you laugh I shall not care;
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • Tavern
    I'll keep a little tavern
      Below the high hill's crest,
    15 lines
  • Blight
    Hard seeds of hate I planted
      That should by now be grown,—
    29 lines
  • Sorrow
      Sorrow like a ceaseless rain
        Beats upon my heart.
    11 lines, 1 comment
  • Ashes Of Life
    Love has gone and left me and the days are all alike;
        Eat I must, and sleep I will, — and would that night we
    11 lines, 3 comments
  • Time Does Not Bring Relief
    Time does not bring relief; you all have lied
    Who told me time would ease me of my pain!
    13 lines
  • The Little Ghost
    I knew her for a little ghost
      That in my garden walked;
    27 lines, 1 comment
  • Witch-Wife
    She is neither pink nor pale,
      And she never will be all mine;
    11 lines
  • When The Year Grows Old
    I cannot but remember
    When the year grows old —
    33 lines
  • The Dream
    Love, if I weep it will not matter,
    And if you laugh I shall not care;
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • Kin To Sorrow
    Am I kin to Sorrow,
    That so oft
    15 lines
  • Renascence
    All I could see from where I stood
    Was three long mountains and a wood;
    218 lines, 8 comments
  • The Suicide
    "Curse thee, Life, I will live with thee no more!
    Thou hast mocked me, starved me, beat my body sore!
    147 lines, 1 comment
  • Three Songs Of Shattering
    The first rose on my rose-tree
    Budded, bloomed, and shattered,
    38 lines, 1 comment
  • Interim
    The room is full of you!--As I came in
    And closed the door behind me, all at once
    211 lines, 1 comment
  • Tavern
    I'll keep a little tavern
      Below the high hill's crest,
    15 lines
  • The Shroud
    Death, I say, my heart is bowed
    Unto thine,--O mother!
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • Blight
    Hard seeds of hate I planted
      That should by now be grown,—
    29 lines
  • Thou Art Not Lovelier Than Lilacs
    Thou art not lovelier than lilacs,—no,
      Nor honeysuckle; thou art not more fair
    13 lines
  • Mindful Of You The Sodden Earth
    Mindful of you the sodden earth in spring,
      And all the flowers that in the springtime grow,
    13 lines
  • Not In This Chamber
    Not in this chamber only at my birth—
      When the long hours of that mysterious night
    13 lines
  • Bluebeard: Sonnet VI
    This door you might not open, and you did; 
        So enter now, and see for what slight thing 
    13 lines
  • If I Should Learn, In Some Quite Casual Way
    IF I should learn, in some quite casual way,
    That you were gone, not to return again—
    14 lines, 5 comments
  • God's World
    O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!
    Thy winds, thy wide grey skies!
    15 lines
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