Francis William Bourdillon Poems

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11.
The Heart Cry

She turned the page of wounds and death
With trembling fingers. In a breath
The gladness of her life became
Naught but a memory and a name.
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12.
The Acorn

An acorn swung
On an oak-tree bough;
So long it had hung,
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13.
The Home Of My Heart

Not here in the populous town,
In the playhouse or mart,
Not here in the ways gray and brown,
Bnt afar on the green-swelling down,
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14.
The Call

Hark! 'tis the rush of the horses,
The crash of the galloping gun!
The stars are out of their courses;
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15.
Drought

For rain, for rain the parched lands cry,
Reproachful to the cloudless sky.
The hot white fields in light are blinking,
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16.
The Regions Of Love

Who knows the deeps, where the water sleeps
Leagues from the light away?
Who knows the heights, where myriad lights
Fill heaven with endless day?
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17.
Christmas Roses

White-faced Winter Roses,
O'er the grave I plant you
Where the dead reposes,
That a soul may haunt you,
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18.
Sonnet I

Oft had I felt, like pure Endymion,
Such love for the sweet moon, that I had well
Believed her able on earth to love and dwell
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19.
Only To Live

Only to live! There nothing is more sweet.
Only to live! There nothing is more bitter.
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20.
Two Robbers

When Death from some fair face
Is stealing life away,
All weep, save she, the grace
That earth shall lose today.
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