Victoria Mary Sackville-west Stand Poems

• 1. Resolution
  I see the work of others, and my heart
  Sinks as my own achievement I compare.
  I will not be irresolute, nor despair,
  But battle strongly for my struggling art
  ...
• 2. Disillusion
  I wrote the burning words to you
  That meant so much to me.
  I sent them speeding straight to you,
  To you across the sea;
  ...
• 3. Constantinople - Yanghin Var*
  As the baying of wolves from afar,
  Borne on the wind from the Golden Horn
  A cry in the distance, long-drawn,
  "Yanghin var! yanghin var!"
  ...
• 4. 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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