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Fannie Stearns Davis's Poetry, by first line

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  • The Forbidden Lure
    "Leave all and follow - follow!"
    Lure of the sun at dawn,
    24 lines
  • The Moods
    The Moods have laid their hands across my hair:
    The Moods have drawn their fingers through my heart;
    24 lines, 2 comments
  • Between the Road and the Harbor
    Between the Road and the Harbor
    It is a little graveyard in a small island village, and it lies
    59 lines, 1 comment
  • The Strange Things of the Sea
    Full patiently the fisherman lay rocking, rocking, rocking;
    Against his boat the little waves came knocking, knocking, knocking,
    18 lines
  • Home
    Home, to the hills and the rough, running water;
    Home, to the plain folk and cold winds again.
    13 lines
  • The Ancient Beautiful Things
    I am all alone in the room.
    The evening stretches before me
    111 lines
  • Ghosts
    I am almost afraid of the wind out there.
    The dead leaves skip on the porches bare,
    26 lines
  • Souls
    My Soul goes clad in gorgeous things,
      Scarlet and gold and blue;
    18 lines, 2 comments
  • Water Fantasy
    O brown brook, O blithe brook, what will you say to me
    If I take off my heavy shoon and wade you childishly?
    45 lines, 2 comments
  • Hill Fantasy
    Sitteth by the red cairn a brown One, a hoofed One, 
    High upon the mountain, where the grasses fail. 
    83 lines
  • The Narrow Doors
    The Wide Door into Sorrow
    Stands open night and day.
    23 lines, 2 comments
  • Wind
    The Wind bows down the poplar trees,
    The Wind bows down the crested seas;
    18 lines
  • Day
    There is your day,
        Up! Away!
    26 lines
  • Up A Hill And A Hill
    Up a hill and a hill there's a sudden orchard slope,
    And a little tawny field in the sun,
    18 lines
  • Profits
    YES, stars were with me formerly. 
    (I also knew the wind and sea; 
    39 lines
  • For a Child
    Your friends shall be the Tall Wind,
    The River and the Tree;
    20 lines
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