Francis William Bourdillon Heart Poems
- 1. The Heart Cry
She turned the page of wounds and death
With trembling fingers. In a breath
The gladness of her life became
Naught but a memory and a name.
... - 2. The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.
... - 3. The Home Of My Heart
Not here in the populous town,
In the playhouse or mart,
Not here in the ways gray and brown,
Bnt afar on the green-swelling down,
... - 4. The Debt Unpayable
What have I given,
Bold sailor on the sea?
In earth or heaven,
That you should die for me?
... - 5. A Spring Evening
Across the Glory of the glowing skies,
A veil is drawn of shadowed mists that rise
From lavishness from God's late gift. the rain.
... - 6. On The South Downs
Light falls the rain
On link and laine,
After the burning day;
And the bright scene,
... - 7. Eurydice
HE came to call me back from death
To the bright world above.
I hear him yet with trembling breath
Low calling, รข??O sweet love!
... - 8. Night
The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.
... - 9. Sonnet I
Oft had I felt, like pure Endymion,
Such love for the sweet moon, that I had well
Believed her able on earth to love and dwell
With whatso man she set her love upon;
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