Link on link, between my wrists,
Now my heavy freedom’s hanging.
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Who was there had seen us
Heavy lay between usAll our sires had done.There he was, a-springingOf a pious race,Setting hags a-swingingIn a market-place;Sowing turnips overWhere the poppies lay;Looking past the clover,Adding up the hay;Shouting through the Spring song,Clumping down the sod;Toadying, in sing-song,To a crabbed god.There I was, that came ofFolk of mud and name-I that had my name ofThem…
Star, that gives a gracious dole,
Oh, will it be a shriven soul,Or little buckled shoes?Shall I wish a wedding-ring,Bright and thin and round,Or plead you send me covering-A newly spaded mound?Gentle beam, shall I imploreGold, or sailing-ships,Or beg I hate forevermoreA pair of lying lips?Swing you low or high away,Burn you hot or dim;My only wish I dare not say-Lest…
Little things that no one needs —
Little landscapes, done in beads.Little morals, woven out,Little wreaths of gilded grass,Little brigs of whittled oakBottled painfully in glass;These are made by lonely folk.Lonely folk have lines of daysLong and faltering and thin;Therefore — little wax bouquets,Prayers cut upon a pin,Little maps of pinkish lands,Little charts of curly seas,Little plats of linen strands,Little verses, such…
Hope it was that tutored me,
And now I learn at Sorrow’s kneeThe self-same lore.
Love has gone a-rocketing.
I could do without the thing,And not be the first.Joy has gone the way it came.That is nothing new;I could get along the same, —Many people do.Dig for me the narrow bed,Now I am bereft.All my pretty hates are dead,And what have I left?
Let another cross his way-
Little need I fear he’ll straySince I have his heart in keeping-Let another hail him dear-Little chance that he’ll forget me!Only need I curse and fearHer he loved before he met me.