Richard Le Gallienne Poems

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71.
To A Dead Friend

And is it true indeed, and must you go,
Set out alone across that moorland track,
No love avail, though we have loved you so,
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72.
To A Mountain Spring

Strange little spring, by channels past our telling,
Gentle, resistless, welling, welling, welling;
Through what blind ways, we know not whence
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73.
To A Poet

Still towards the steep Parnassian way
The moon-led pilgrims wend,
Ah, who of all that start to-day
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74.
To A Rose

O rose! forbear to flaunt yourself,
All bloom and dew-
I once, sad-hearted as I am,
Was young as you.
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75.
To A Simple Housewife

Who dough shall knead as for God's sake
Shall fill it with celestial leaven,
And every loaf that she shall bake
Be eaten of the Blest in heaven.
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76.
To A Wild Bird

Wild bird, I stole you from your nest,
And cannot find your nest again;
To hear you chirp a little while
I wrung your mother's heart with pain.
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77.
To Belgium

Our tears, our songs, our laurels--what are these
To thee in thy Gethsemane of loss,
Stretched in thine unimagined agonies
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78.
To Lucy Hinton: December 19, 1921

O loveliest face, on which we look our last--
Not without hope we may again behold
Somewhere, somehow, when we ourselves have passed
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79.
To Madame Jumel

Of all the wind-blown dust of faces fair,
Had I a god's re-animating breath,
Thee, like a perfumed torch in the dim air
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80.
To Mildred

Always thy book, too late acknowledged thine,
Now when thine eyes no earthly page may read;
Blinded with death, or blinded with the shine
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