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Anna Hempstead Branch's Poetry, by first line

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  • Dream
    But now the Dream has come again, the world is as of old.
    Once more I feel about my breast the heartening splendors fold.
    32 lines
  • While Loveliness Goes By
    Sometimes when all the world seems grey and dun
    And nothing beautiful, a voice will cry,
    17 lines
  • Rose Of The Wind
    CHARACTERS
    * SEBASTIAN—the cobbler.
    1208 lines
  • Nimrod
    PART I
    ONE time, in Shinar, when the setting sun,
    2065 lines
  • The Warrior Maid
    They bade me to my spinning
    Because I was a maid,
    52 lines
  • Ere The Golden Bowl Is Broken
    He gathered for His own delight
    The sparkling waters of my soul.
    52 lines, 1 comment
  • Connecticut Road Song
    In the wide and rocky pasture where the cedar trees are gray,
    The briar rose was growing with the blueberry and bay.
    40 lines
  • So I May Feel The Hands Of God
    How swiftly, once, on silvery feet
    I saw thee bound beneath the sun!
    36 lines
  • To An Enemy
    I
    I saw thee once. I shall know thee ever.
    135 lines
  • Selene
    But when Endymion, wandering alone,
    With youth and love of loveliness forlorn,
    497 lines
  • The Wedding Feast
    PART I
    Oh who art thou—thou fearful guest—
    826 lines
  • Dominus Vineae; Spiritus Agricola
    Once more among our archangelic hills
    The streets of this old, grave, and gracious town
    255 lines
  • The Monk In The Kitchen
    ORDER is a lovely thing; 
    On disarray it lays its wing, 
    125 lines
  • Songs for My Mother
      Her Hands
    85 lines
  • Grieve Not, Ladies
    Oh, grieve not, Ladies, if at night
    Ye wake to feel your beauty going;
    48 lines
  • To A New York Shop-Girl Dressed For Sunday
    Today I saw the shop-girl go
    Down gay Broadway to meet her beau.
    98 lines
  • The Name
    When I come back from secret dreams
    In gardens deep and fair,
    89 lines
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