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  • Prisoner
    Long I fought the driving lists,
     Plume a-stream and armor clanging;
    4 lines, 1 comment
  • Reuben's Children
    Accursed from their birth they be
     Who seek to find monogamy,
    4 lines
  • Ornithology For Beginners
    The bird that feeds from off my palm
    Is sleek, affectionate, and calm,
    4 lines
  • Iseult Of Brittany
    So delicate my hands, and long,
     They might have been my pride.
    8 lines
  • Sonnet For The End Of A Sequence
    So take my vows and scatter them to sea;
    Who swears the sweetest is no more than human.
    14 lines
  • Vers Demode
    For one, the amaryllis and the rose;
     The poppy, sweet as never lilies are;
    8 lines
  • Victoria
    Dear dead Victoria
     Rotted cosily;
    16 lines
  • Story Of Mrs. W-
    My garden blossoms pink and white,
    A place of decorous murmuring,
    23 lines
  • They Part
    And if, my friend, you'd have it end,
     There's naught to hear or tell.
    12 lines
  • Second Love
    "So surely is she mine," you say, and turn
    Your quick and steady mind to harder things-
    14 lines
  • Hearthside
    Half across the world from me
    Lie the lands I'll never see-
    24 lines
  • Plea
    Secrets, you said, would hold us two apart;
    You'd have me know of you your least transgression,
    18 lines
  • Purposely Ungrammatical Love Song
    There's many and many, and not so far,
     Is willing to dry my tears away;
    12 lines
  • Requiescat
    Tonight my love is sleeping cold
     Where none may see and none shall pass.
    8 lines
  • I Shall Come Back
    I shall come back without fanfaronade
    Of wailing wind and graveyard panoply;
    14 lines
  • Philosophy
    If I should labor through daylight and dark,
      Consecrate, valorous, serious, true,
    4 lines
  • Roundel
    She's passing fair; but so demure is she,
    So quiet is her gown, so smooth her hair,
    11 lines
  • For A Sad Lady
    And let her loves, when she is dead,
     Write this above her bones:
    4 lines
  • For An Unknown Lady
    Lady, if you'd slumber sound,
    Keep your eyes upon the ground.
    20 lines
  • Garden-Spot
    God's acre was her garden-spot, she said;
     She sat there often, of the Summer days,
    12 lines
  • Pour Prendre Conge
    I'm sick of embarking in dories
     Upon an emotional sea.
    20 lines
  • Prophetic Soul
    Because your eyes are slant and slow,
    Because your hair is sweet to touch,
    4 lines
  • Sight
    Unseemly are the open eyes
     That watch the midnight sheep,
    8 lines
  • Social Note
    Lady, lady, should you meet
    One whose ways are all discreet,
    8 lines
  • The Leal
    The friends I made have slipped and strayed,
      And who's the one that cares?
    8 lines
  • The Small Hours
    No more my little song comes back;
     And now of nights I lay
    8 lines
  • Liebestod
    When I was bold, when I was bold-
     And that's a hundred years!-
    36 lines
  • My Own
    Then let them point my every tear,
     And let them mock and moan;
    8 lines
  • Thomas Carlyle
    Carlyle combined the lit'ry life
    With throwing teacups at his wife,
    4 lines
  • Walter Savage Landor
    Upon the work of Walter Landor
    I am unfit to write with candor.
    4 lines
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