Amy Levy Poems

Believe me, this was true last night,
Tho' it is false to-day.
- A.M.F. Robinson.
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With Apologies to Mr. Swinburne.


For repose I have sighed and have struggled ; have sigh'd and have struggled in vain;
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"To see my love suffices me."
--Ballades in Blue China.
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With fruit and flowers the board is deckt,
The wine and laughter flow;
I'll not complain--could one expect
So dull a world to know?
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Am I waking, am I sleeping?
As the first faint dawn comes creeping
Thro' the pane, I am aware
Of an unseen presence hovering,
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I knew not if to laugh or weep;
They sat and talked of you--
"'Twas here he sat; 'twas this he said!
'Twas that he used to do.
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A haunted town thou art to me.
-- Andrew Lang
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Straw in the street where I pass to-day
Dulls the sound of the wheels and feet.
'Tis for a failing life they lay
Straw in the street.
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The people take the thing of course,
They marvel not to see
This strange, unnatural divorce
Betwixt delight and me.
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"Am Kreuzweg wird begraben
Wer selber brachte sich um."
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