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I	A
FATHER AND CHILD	B
SHE hears me strike the board and say	C
That she is under ban	D
Of all good men and women	E
Being mentioned with a man	D
That has the worst of all bad names	F
And thereupon replies	G
That his hair is beautiful	H
Cold as the March wind his eyes	G
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II	A
BEFORE THE WORLD WAS MADE	I
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IF I make the lashes dark	J
And the eyes more bright	K
And the lips more scarlet	L
Or ask if all be right	K
From mirror after mirror	M
No vanity's displayed	I
I'm looking for the face I had	N
Before the world was made	I
What if I look upon a man	D
As though on my beloved	O
And my blood be cold the while	P
And my heart unmoved	Q
Why should he think me cruel	H
Or that he is betrayed	I
I'd have him love the thing that was	R
Before the world was made	I
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III	A
A FIRST CONFESSION	E
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I ADMIT the briar	M
Entangled in my hair	S
Did not injure me	T
My blenching and trembling	U
Nothing but dissembling	U
Nothing but coquetry	S
I long for truth and yet	V
I cannot stay from that	W
My better self disowns	R
For a man's attention	E
Brings such satisfaction	E
To the craving in my bones	R
Brightness that I pull back	X
From the Zodiac	X
Why those questioning eyes	R
That are fixed upon me	T
What can they do but shun me	T
If empty night replies	R
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IV	-
HER TRIUMPH	-
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I DID the dragon's will until you came	Y
Because I had fancied love a casual	H
Improvisation or a settled game	Y
That followed if I let the kerchief fall	Z
Those deeds were best that gave the minute wings	R
And heavenly music if they gave it wit	A2
And then you stood among the dragon rings	R
I mocked being crazy but you mastered it	A2
And broke the chain and set my ankles free	T
Saint George or else a pagan Perseus	R
And now we stare astonished at the sea	T
And a miraculous strange bird shrieks at us	R
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V	T
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CONSOLATION	E
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O BUT there is wisdom	B2
In what the sages said	C2
But stretch that body for a while	P
And lay down that head	C2
Till I have told the sages	R
Where man is comforted	D2
How could passion run so deep	E2
Had I never thought	F2
That the crime of being born	G2
Blackens all our lot	H2
But where the crime's committed	I2
The crime can be forgot	H2
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VI	-
CHOSEN	E
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THE lot of love is chosen I learnt that much	J2
Struggling for an image on the track	X
Of the whirling Zodiac	X
Scarce did he my body touch	J2
Scarce sank he from the west	K2
Or found a subtetranean rest	K2
On the maternal midnight of my breast	K2
Before I had marked him on his northern way	C
And seemed to stand although in bed I lay	C
I struggled with the horror of daybreak	L2
I chose it for my lot If questioned on	M2
My utmost pleasure with a man	D
By some new married bride I take	L2
That stillness for a theme	N2
Where his heart my heart did seem	N2
And both adrift on the miraculous stream	N2
Where wrote a learned astrologer	S
The Zodiac is changed into a sphere	S
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VII	-
PARTING	U
i He Dear I must be gone	O2
While night Shuts the eyes	R
Of the household spies	R
That song announces dawn	O2
i She No night's bird and love's	R
Bids all true lovers rest	K2
While his loud song reproves	R
The murderous stealth of day	C
i He Daylight already flies	R
From mountain crest to crest	K2
i She That light is from the moom	N2
i He That bird	P2
i She Let him sing on	M2
I offer to love's play	C
My dark declivities	R
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VIII	-
HER VISION IN THE WOOD	Q2
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DRY timber under that rich foliage	R2
At wine dark midnight in the sacred wood	Q2
Too old for a man's love I stood in rage	S2
Imagining men Imagining that I could	Q2
A greater with a lesser pang assuage	S2
Or but to find if withered vein ran blood	I2
I tore my body that its wine might cover	S
Whatever could rccall the lip of lover	S
And after that I held my fingers up	T2
Stared at the wine dark nail or dark that ran	D
Down every withered finger from the top	U2
But the dark changed to red and torches shone	V2
And deafening music shook the leaves a troop	W2
Shouldered a litter with a wounded man	D
Or smote upon the string and to the sound	X2
Sang of the beast that gave the fatal wound	X2
All stately women moving to a song	Y2
With loosened hair or foreheads grief distraught	F2
It seemed a Quattrocento painter's throng	Y2
A thoughtless image of Mantegna's thought	F2
Why should they think that are for ever young	Z2
Till suddenly in grief's contagion caught	H2
I stared upon his blood bedabbled breast	K2
And sang my malediction with the rest	K2
That thing all blood and mire that beast torn wreck	A3
Half turned and fixed a glazing eye on mine	B3
And though love's bitter sweet had all come back	X
Those bodies from a picture or a coin	C3
Nor saw my body fall nor heard it shriek	D3
Nor knew drunken with singing as with wine	B3
That they had brought no fabulous symbol there	S
But my heart's victim and its torturer	S
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IX	R
A LAST CONFESSION	E
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WHAT lively lad most pleasured me	N2
Of all that with me lay	C
I answer that I gave my soul	E3
And loved in misery	N2
But had great pleasure with a lad	N
That I loved bodily	N2
Flinging from his arms I laughed	F3
To think his passion such	J2
He fancied that I gave a soul	E3
Did but our bodies touch	J2
And laughed upon his breast to think	G3
Beast gave beast as much	J2
I gave what other women gave	-
'That stepped out of their clothes	R
But when this soul its body off	-
Naked to naked goes	R
He it has found shall find therein	H3
What none other knows	R
And give his own and take his own	V2
And rule in his own right	K
And though it loved in misery	N2
Close and cling so tight	K
There's not a bird of day that dare	S
Extinguish that delight	K
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X	R
MEETING	U
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HIDDEN by old age awhile	P
In masker's cloak and hood	Q2
Each hating what the other loved	O
Face to face we stood	Q2
'That I have met with such ' said he	N2
'Bodes me little good '	-
'Let others boast their fill ' said I	-
'But never dare to boast	I3
That such as I had such a man	D
For lover in the past	J3
Say that of living men I hate	K3
Such a man the most '	-
'A loony'd boast of such a love '	-
He in his rage declared	L3
But such as he for such as me	N2
Could we both discard	M3
This beggarly habiliment	M3
Had found a sweeter word	M3
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XI	N2
FROM THE 'ANTIGONE'	D
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OVERCOME O bitter sweetness	R
Inhabitant of the soft cheek of a girl	N3
The rich man and his affairs	R
The fat flocks and the fields' fatness	R
Mariners rough harvesters	R
Overcome Gods upon Parnassus	R
Overcome the Empyrean hurl	N3
Heaven and Earth out of their places	R
That in the Same calamity	N2
Brother and brother friend and friend	M3
Family and family	N2
City and city may contend	M3
By that great glory driven wild	M3
Pray I will and sing I must	M3
And yet I weep Oedipus' child	M3
Descends into the loveless dust	M3