Richard Le Gallienne Poems

Shadows! the only shadows that I know
Are happy shadows of the light of you,
The radiance immortal shining through
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'She said: 'Thou shalt never unsay it, and thy heart is mine indeed:
Thou shalt bear thy love in thy bosom as thou helpest the earth-folk's need:
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From tavern to tavern
Youth passes along,
With an armful of girl
And a heart full of song.
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Am I so soon grown tired?-yet this old sky
Can open still each morn so blue an eye,
This great old river still through nights and days
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My eye upon your eyes--
So was I born,
One far-off day in Paradise,
A summer morn;
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I

Fragoletta, blessed one,
What think you of the light of the sun?
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Face with the forest eyes,
And the wayward wild-wood hair,
How shall a man be wise,
When a girl's so fair;
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There, in my mind's-eye, pure it lay,
My lodger's vote! 'Twas mine to-day.
It seemed a sort of maidenhood,
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When all the world has gone awry,
And I myself least favour find
With my own self, and but to die
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My mouth to thy mouth
Ah never, ah never!
My breast from thy breast
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