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Mixed with wild-rose and honeysuckle - Leonora Speyer "Abrigada"

The silver magic in the trees - Leonora Speyer "Abrigada"

Spinning her wild white thread - Leonora Speyer "Abrigada"

Their brief victories of dusk and dawn - Leonora Speyer "Abrigada"

And stumble toward the stars - Leonora Speyer "Abrigada"

April now walks the fields again - Leonora Speyer "April on the Battlefields"

Holding all her buds against her heart - Leonora Speyer "April on the Battlefields"

A dreadful knowledge trembles in the grass - Leonora Speyer "April on the Battlefields"

After a terror of all raving sound - Leonora Speyer "April on the Battlefields"

And birds sit close for comfort on broken boughs - Leonora Speyer "April on the Battlefields"

Those stepping-stones from life to life - Leonora Speyer "April on the Battlefields"

An interruption between two heart-beats - Leonora Speyer "April on the Battlefields"

She passes with her perfect countersign - Leonora Speyer "April on the Battlefields"

Where all may pass who pay their toll - Leonora Speyer "Ballad of a Lost House"

Leave the chicory where it stands - Leonora Speyer "Bavarian Roadside"

If your hunger crave for blue - Leonora Speyer "Bavarian Roadside"

Then strap my wings to your feet - Leonora Speyer "Cantares"

Suffer the moths to singe their wings - Leonora Speyer "Cantares"

Lurking shapes that give no sign of rising - Leonora Speyer "Deep Sea Fishing"

Breaks the line along the failing tide - Leonora Speyer "Deep Sea Fishing"

Out of my sorrow I'll build a stair - Leonora Speyer "Duet (I sing with myself)"

Carry my pack of aches and stings - Leonora Speyer "Duet (I sing with myself)"

The music of your cruelties - Leonora Speyer "Enigma"

To sound the silent skies - Leonora Speyer "Enigma"

With pain’s leaping ember - Leonora Speyer "Enigma"

Roistering down the centuries - Leonora Speyer "Fiddler's Farewell"

Yet deep enough to drown - Leonora Speyer "Fiddler's Farewell"

Tattered music trailing on the ground - Leonora Speyer "Fiddler's Farewell"

Choirs of taut tuned strings - Leonora Speyer "Fiddler's Farewell"

This unbarred stronghold of sweet gold - Leonora Speyer "Fiddler's Farewell"

Kindle their numb and awful apathy - Leonora Speyer "Fiddler's Farewell"

Measured wisdom of wide symphonies - Leonora Speyer "Fiddler's Farewell"

Grief shall not be my friend - Leonora Speyer "Friends"

She shall not be companion of my table - Leonora Speyer "Friends"

Shall not share my salt nor break my bread - Leonora Speyer "Friends"

Nor walk nor weep nor dream nor wake with me - Leonora Speyer "Friends"

Nor listen to her whisperings of the dead - Leonora Speyer "Friends"

And me, a puny thing of anguished need - Leonora Speyer "Friends"

The wingless, tearless thing the heart calls strength - Leonora Speyer "Friends"

Out of the storm that muffles shining night - Leonora Speyer "Garden Under Lightning"

Writhing paths I surely walked in that other life - Leonora Speyer "Garden Under Lightning"

Night, lingering, poured upon the world - Leonora Speyer "A Gift"

Held out to me a golden handful of bird's-notes - Leonora Speyer "A Gift"

Swimming round and round the centuries - Leonora Speyer "Gold-Fish"

Eternally golden, immortally indifferent - Leonora Speyer "Gold-Fish"

In your bleak eyes is the memory - Leonora Speyer "Gulls"

In the sea's ebbing cradles - Leonora Speyer "Gulls"

The mocking echo of woman's weeping - Leonora Speyer "Gulls"

A slow ship moving across its own oblivion - Leonora Speyer "The Heart Recalcitrant"

Learned to bless their overflowing emptiness - Leonora Speyer "The Heart Recalcitrant"

That roused this ember from exiled ashes - Leonora Speyer "The Heart Recalcitrant"

The lying sword, still dripping with my truth - Leonora Speyer "I'll Be Your Epitaph!"

But your dark dust will know - Leonora Speyer "I'll Be Your Epitaph!"

Along the ledges of sun-lacquered hours - Leonora Speyer "King's Garden"

Hidden, as are the hands of gods - Leonora Speyer "King's Garden"

Stole his eyes because they shone - Leonora Speyer "Kleptomaniac"

Stole the journeys of his heart - Leonora Speyer "Kleptomaniac"

Stole his anger and his scorn - Leonora Speyer "Kleptomaniac"

Glad of such plunder to be rid - Leonora Speyer "Kleptomaniac"

She comes from out the violated sky - Leonora Speyer "The Last Morning in the Country"

Dragging her tarnished light - Leonora Speyer "The Last Morning in the Country"

A small, pointed flame of sound - Leonora Speyer "The Locust"

On the ecstatic edge of sunbeams - Leonora Speyer "The Locust"

Reach by a song nearer the stars - Leonora Speyer "Measure Me, Sky!"

Profit of pain, joy by the weight of a word - Leonora Speyer "Measure Me, Sky!"

A horse-shoe rusts above the door - Leonora Speyer "New England Cottage"

That guard their dreams like sentinels - Leonora Speyer "New England Cottage"

Slow-withering stick and stone - Leonora Speyer "New England Cottage"

Oak flesh that fades on iron bone - Leonora Speyer "New England Cottage"

Plucked a flame from off a tree - Leonora Speyer "October Trees"

An unanswered crying turned to stone - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"

Granite beneath the glare of hostile spaces - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"

Reckons the rhythm of centuries - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"

Recounts these careless wonders - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"

Sea-weed on the surface of the air - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"

Under the iron wheels that lift us - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"

Scatters flowers from an ample garden - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"

Along the black cliffs of the sky - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"

That wears this hour like a crown - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"

Making a prison of the world - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"

Because of mountains in my heart - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"

Although he fall a thousand times - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"

Pause upon the threshold's rust - Leonora Speyer "Protest in Passing"

Bleak winter in their frosty eyes - Leonora Speyer "Sand-Pipings: For a Spring Day"

Along the rim of an exhausted sea - Leonora Speyer "Sand-Pipings: Storm's End"

Strange winds directed my poor aim - Leonora Speyer "Saul! Saul!"

I wrote your name within my heart - Leonora Speyer "Song Overheard"

I lost my heart along the shining places - Leonora Speyer "Song Overheard"

Plucking a flower I did not want - Leonora Speyer "Song Overheard"

And taught the adolescent Serpent how to hiss - Leonora Speyer "The Story as I Understand It"

How the apple-boughs are twisted in their pain - Leonora Speyer "The Story as I Understand It"

Weighed down with many a red-cheeked little Cain - Leonora Speyer "The Story as I Understand It"

To make their surer paradise of tears - Leonora Speyer "The Story as I Understand It"

In the Garden is a hallowed emptiness of laws - Leonora Speyer "The Story as I Understand It"

That none shall ever bless or break - Leonora Speyer "The Story as I Understand It"

Through a divine monotony of Spring on spring - Leonora Speyer "The Story as I Understand It"

As if to break themselves upon its stillness - Leonora Speyer "Swallows"

They dip their wings in the sunset - Leonora Speyer "Swallows"

A furtive delight in trees they don't desire - Leonora Speyer "Swallows"

In grasses that shall not know their weight - Leonora Speyer "Swallows"

Seek the high austerity of evening sky and swirl into its depths - Leonora Speyer "Swallows"

Bruised from battered jetty and sea-wall - Leonora Speyer "This City Wind"

Drowning in dreams as bitter and as deep - Leonora Speyer "This City Wind"

Jonah wept within the whale - Leonora Speyer "To a Song of Sappho discovered in Egypt"

Under the brown banks of the Nile - Leonora Speyer "To a Song of Sappho discovered in Egypt"

From the seven strands of the small harp - Leonora Speyer "To a Song of Sappho discovered in Egypt"

Along strange winds your petals blew - Leonora Speyer "To a Song of Sappho discovered in Egypt"

Love has a hundred gentle ends - Leonora Speyer "Two Passionate Ones Part"


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