Victoria Mary Sackville-west Sweet 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;
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• 2. 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
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• 3. Constantinople - The Greek Han
  A sunny court with wooden balconies,
  And wool hung out to dry in gaudy skeins,
  A fountain, and some pigeons murmuringly
  Picking up yellow grains.
  ...
• 4. For ***
  No eyes shall see the poems that I write
  For you; not even yours; but after long
  Forgetful years have passed on our delight
  Some hand may chance upon a dusty song
  ...
• 5. 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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