Victoria Sackville-west Young Poems

• 1. Bitterness
  Yes, they were kind exceedingly; most mild
  Even in indignation, taking by the hand
  One that obeyed them mutely, as a child
  Submissive to a law he does not understand.
  ...
• 2. Mariana In The North
  All her youth is gone, her beautiful youth outworn,
  Daughter of tarn and tor, the moors that were once her home
  No longer know her step on the upland tracks forlorn
  Where she was wont to roam.
  ...
• 3. Making Cider
  I saw within the wheelwrightâ??s shed
  The big round cartwheels, blue and red;
  A plough with blunted share;
  A blue tin jug; a broken chair;
  ...
• 4. Tuscany
  Cisterns and stones; the fig-tree in the wall
  Casts down her shadow, ashen as her boughs,
  Across the road, across the thick white dust.
  Down from the hill the slow white oxen crawl,
  ...

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