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  • Two In August
    Two that could not have lived their single lives
    As can some husbands and wives
    39 lines
  • Spectral Lovers
    By night they haunted a thicket of April mist,
    Out of that black ground suddenly come to birth,
    45 lines
  • Romance Of A Youngest Daughter
    Who will wed the Dowager’s youngest daughter,
    The Captain? filled with ale?
    29 lines
  • Vaunting Oak
    He is a tower unleaning. But how he’ll break
    If Heaven assault him with full wind and sleet,
    62 lines
  • Under The Locusts
    WHAT do the old men say,
                            Sitting out of the sun?
    39 lines
  • Wrestling
    AT last came threshing-time, the manly season.
                            W
    32 lines
  • Eclogue
    JANE SNEED BEGAN IT: My poor John, alas,
    Ten years ago, pretty it was in a ring
    102 lines
  • Sickness
    THE toughest carcass in the town
                            Fell sick at la
    59 lines
  • Judith Of Bethulia
    Beautiful as the flying legend of some leopard
    She had not chosen yet her captain, nor Prince
    54 lines
  • Miriam Tazewell
    When Miriam Tazewell heard the tempest bursting
    And his wrathy whips across the sky drawn crackling
    27 lines
  • April Treason
    So he took her as anointed
    In the part he had appointed,
    45 lines
  • The Christian
    I HEARD a story of a sailing man.
                            He was a surly
    20 lines
  • Prayer
    SHE would not keep at home, the foolish woman,
                            S
    48 lines
  • A Christmas Colloquy
    THE country farmer has his joys
                            Of little city g
    107 lines
  • Friendship
    I VIEWED him well, the visible fat fool,
                            And yet
    35 lines
  • Dumb-Bells
    DUMB-BELLS left, dumb-bells right,
                            Swing them ha
    29 lines
  • Worship
    I KNOW a quite religious man
                            Who utters praises
    41 lines
  • November
    THERE'S a patch of trees at the edge of the field,
                          &nbs
    93 lines
  • Men
    "How many goodly creatures are there here!"
                            Mira
    8 lines
  • The School
    I WAS not drowsy though the scholars droned.
                            Hea
    43 lines
  • Emily Hardcastle, Spinster
    We shall come tomorrow morning, who were not to have her love,
    We shall bring no face of envy but a gift of praise and lilies
    17 lines
  • Overtures
    My dear and I, we disagreed
                            When we had been muc
    46 lines
  • By The Riverside
    A GREAT green spread of meadow land,
                            (Must rest
    27 lines
  • The Power Of God
    IF the power of God were mine, and the ample turn,
                          &nbs
    47 lines
  • The Lover
    I SAT in a friendly company
                            And wagged my wicked
    33 lines
  • The Four Roses
    FOUR sisters sitting in one house,
                            I said, these
    15 lines
  • Geometry
    My window looks upon a wood
                            That stands as tangl
    85 lines
  • April
    SAVOR of love is thick on the April air,
                            The blu
    22 lines
  • Janet Waking
    Beautifully Janet slept
    Till it was deeply morning. She woke then
    39 lines
  • The Cloak Model
    "My son," the stranger thus began,
                            And drew me t
    41 lines
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