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The Merry Maid

Oh, I am grown so free from care Since my heart broke!I set my throat against the air, I laugh at simple folk!There’s little kind and little fair Is worth its weight in smokeTo me, that’s grown so free from…

Midnight Oil

Cut if you will, with Sleep’s dull knife, Each day to half its length, my friend,—The years that Time takes off my life, He’ll take from off the other end!

Portrait by a Neighbor

Before she has her floor swept Or her dishes done,Any day you’ll find her A-sunning in the sun!It’s long after midnight Her key’s in the lock,And you never see her chimney smoke Till past ten o’clock!She digs in her garden…

Daphne

Why do you follow me?—Any moment I can beNothing but a laurel-tree. Any moment of the chaseI can leave you in my placeA pink bough for your embrace. Yet if over hill and hollowStill it is your will to follow,I…

The Penitent

I had a little Sorrow, Born of a little Sin,I found a room all damp with gloom And shut us all within;And, “Little Sorrow, weep,” said I,”And, Little Sin, pray God to die,And I upon the floor will lie And…

Grown-up

  Was it for this I uttered prayers,  And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs,  That now, domestic as a plate,  I should retire at half-past eight?

The Unexplorer

There was a road ran past our houseToo lovely to explore.I asked my mother once—she saidThat if you followed where it ledIt brought you to the milk-man’s door.(That’s why I have not traveled more.)

She Is Overheard Singing

Oh, Prue she has a patient man, And Joan a gentle lover,And Agatha’s Arth’ is a hug-the-hearth,­— But my true love’s a rover! Mig, her man’s as good as cheese And honest as a briar,Sue tells her love what he’s…

Macdougal Street

As I went walking up and down to take the evening air, (Sweet to meet upon the street, why must I be so shy?) I saw him lay his hand upon her torn black hair; (“Little dirty Latin child, let…