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The Miller's Daughter
2023-12-06IT is the miller's daughter And she is grown so dear so dear That I would be the jewel That trembles in her ear: For hid in ringlets day and night...
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A Musical Instrument
2023-12-06WHAT was he doing the great god Pan Down in the reeds by the river? Spreading ruin and scattering ban Splashing and paddling with hoofs of a goat And ...
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The Deserted Garden
2023-12-06I MIND me in the days departed How often underneath the sun With childish bounds I used to run To a garden long deserted. The beds and walks were vani...
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Rosalind's Scroll
2023-12-06I LEFT thee last a child at heart A woman scarce in years: I come to thee a solemn corpse Which neither feels nor fears. I have no breath to use in si...
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Last Sonnet
2023-12-06BRIGHT Star would I were steadfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching with eternal lids apart Like Nature'...
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Hellas
2023-12-06THE world's great age begins anew The golden years return The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn; Heaven smiles and faiths and...
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The Ivy-Wife
2023-12-06I LONGED to love a full-boughed beech And be as high as he: I stretched an arm within his reach, And signalled unity. But with his drip he forced a br...
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My Cicely
2023-12-06"ALIVE?"——And I leapt in my wonder, Was faint of my joyance, And grasses and grove shone in garments Of glory to me. "She l...
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The Flower
2023-12-06A flower - shrivelled, bare of fragrance, Forgotten on a page - I see, And instantly my soul awakens, Filled with an aimless reverie: When did it bloo...
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I loved you
2023-12-06I loved you, and I probably still do, And for a while the feeling may remain But let my love no longer trouble you, I do not wish to cause you any pai...