Victoria Mary Sackville-west Beneath Poems

• 1. Evening
  When little lights in little ports come out,
  Quivering down through water with the stars,
  And all the fishing fleet of slender spars
  Range at their moorings, veer with tide about;
  ...
• 2. To Knole
  October 1, 1913
  
  I
  I left thee in the crowds and in the light,
  ...
• 3. The Banquet
  Wine ran; rich yellow wine upon the marble floor
  Recklessly spilled; the Nubians ran to pour
  A fresh libation; and to scatter showers
  Of red rose petals; candles overturned
  ...
• 4. Convalescence
  When I am in the Orient once again,
  And turn into the gay and squalid street,
  One side in the shadow, one in vivid heat,
  The thought of England, fresh beneath the rain,
  ...
• 5. Sailing Ships
  Lying on Downs above the wrinkling bay
  I with the kestrels shared the cleanly day,
  The candid day; wind-shaven, brindled turf;
  Tall cliffs; and long sea-line of marbled surf
  ...
• 6. Morning In Constantinople
  She has an early morning of her own,
  A blending of the mist and sea and sun
  Into an undistinguishable one,
  And Saint Sophia, from her lordly throne
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• 7. A Creed
  That I should live and look with open eyes
  I count as half my claim to Paradise.
  I have not crept beneath cathedral arches,
  But bathed in streams beneath the silver larches;
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• 8. Trio
  So well she knew them both! yet as she came
  Into the room, and heard their speech
  Of tragic meshes knotted with her name,
  And saw them, foes, but meeting each with each
  ...
• 9. The Dancing Elf*
  I woke to daylight, and to find
  A wreath of fading vine-leaves, rough entwined,
  Lying, as dropped in hasty flight, upon my floor.
  
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