Lascelles Abercrombie Sweet Poems
- 1. Marriage Song
I
Come up, dear chosen morning, come,
Blessing the air with light,
... - 2. Emblems Of Love, Part Ii Imperfection
MARY
[A LEGEND OF THE FORTY-FIVE]
... - 3. The End Of The World, Act I
PERSONS
HUFF, the Farmer
SOLLERS, the Wainwright.
... - 4. The End Of The World, Act Ii
ACT II
As before, a little while after. The room is empty when the curtain goes up. SOLLERS runs in and paces about, but stops short when he catches sight of a pot dog on the mantlepiece.
... - 5. Hymn To Love
We are thine, O Love, being in thee and made of thee,
As théou, Léove, were the déep thought
And we the speech of the thought; yea, spoken are we,
Thy fires of thought out-spoken:
... - 6. Ryton Firs
The Dream
All round the knoll, on days of quietest air,
Secrets are being told; and if the trees
... - 7. The Box
Once upon a time, in the land of Hush-A-Bye,
Around about the wondrous days of yore,
They came across a kind of box
Bound up with chains and locked with locks
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