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Katherine Mansfield's Poetry, by popularity

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  • The Earth-Child In The Grass
    In the very early morning
    Long before Dawn time
    23 lines
  • There Was A Child Once
    There was a child once.
    He came to play in my garden ;
    26 lines
  • Villa Pauline
    But, ah! before he came
    You were only a name:
    22 lines, 1 comment
  • The Gulf
    A Gulf of silence separates us from each other.
    I stand at one side of the gulf, you at the other.
    9 lines, 1 comment
  • The Pillar Box
    The pillar box is fat and red,
    The pillar box is high;
    24 lines
  • The Quarrel
    Our quarrel seemed a giant thing,
    It made the room feel mean and small,
    25 lines, 1 comment
  • The Candle
    By my bed, on a little round table
    The Grandmother placed a candle.
    36 lines, 1 comment
  • The Man with the Wooden Leg
    There was a man lived quite near us;
    He had a wooden leg and a goldfinch in a green cage.
    16 lines, 2 comments
  • The Wounded Bird
    In the wide bed
    Under the freen embroidered quilt
    38 lines, 1 comment
  • Song of Karen, the Dancing Child
    (O little white feet of mine)
    Out in the storm and the rain you fly;
    25 lines, 1 comment
  • The Arabian Shawl
    "It is cold outside, you will need a coat--
    What! this old Arabian shawl!
    21 lines, 1 comment
  • The Black Monkey
    My Babbles has a nasty knack
    Of keeping monkeys on her back.
    35 lines, 1 comment
  • To God the Father
    To the little, pitiful God I make my prayer,
    The God with the long grey beard
    31 lines, 1 comment
  • Song of the Little White Girl
    Cabbage tree, cabbage tree, what is the matter?
    Why are you shaking so? Why do you chatter?
    15 lines, 1 comment
  • The Town Between the Hills
    The further the little girl leaped and ran,
    The further she longed to be;
    68 lines, 1 comment
  • There was a Child Once
    There was a child once.
    He came to play in my garden;
    29 lines, 1 comment
  • Sorrowing Love
    And again the flowers are come,
    And the light shakes,
    30 lines, 1 comment
  • To L. H. B. (1894-1915 )
    Last night for the first time since you were dead
    I walked with you, my brother, in a dream.
    17 lines, 1 comment
  • Waves
    I saw a tiny God
    Sitting
    69 lines, 1 comment
  • The Storm
    I Ran to the forest for shelter,
    Breathless, half sobbing;
    25 lines, 1 comment
  • Song by the Window Before Bed
    Little Star, little Star,
    Come down quick.
    21 lines
  • Secret Flowers
    Is love a light for me? A steady light,
    A lamp within whose pallid pool I dream
    19 lines
  • The Lonesome Child
    The baby in the looking-glass
    Is smiling through at me;
    25 lines, 1 comment
  • There is a Solemn Wind To-Night
    There is a solemn wind to-night
    That sings of solemn rain;
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • The Earth-Child in the Grass
    In the very early morning
    Long before Dawn time
    25 lines, 1 comment
  • A New Hymn
    Sing a song of men's pyjamas,
    Half-past-six has got a pair,
    10 lines, 1 comment
  • The Secret
    In the profoundest ocean
    There is a rainbow shell,
    9 lines, 1 comment
  • Night-Scented Stock
    White, white in the milky night
    The moon danced over a tree.
    40 lines
  • The Sea- Child
    Into the world you sent her, mother,
    Fashioned her body of coral and foam,
    18 lines, 2 comments
  • The Family
    Hinemoa, Tui, Maina,
    All of them were born together;
    25 lines, 2 comments
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