Teresa Hooley Poems

To-night out in the darkness
The wind is loud and high-
I saw a star go falling
Along the wintry sky.
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A fleck of foam on the shining sand,
Left by the ebbing sea,
But richer than man may understand
In magic and mystery-
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A flash of silver wings in the sun,
And I see, with divine surprise,
Here in the Midlands quiet and dun-
Sea-gulls up in the skies!
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The swallows wheel about the sky,
Trying their wings for overseas;
The thistledown goes floating by;
At midnight shine the Pleiades;
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So love between us is over?- But the mountains and sea remain,
The blue of the world at twilight, and the sound of the summer rain.
The touch of the face of flowers is soft as a child at the breast;
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To-day is January still,
Yet, fugitive and half-divined,
There comes a scent of daffodil
And violet on the winter wind.
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Orion is setting, setting into the west,
Luminous, low;
His tilted torches sink to their golden rest,
Splendid and slow,
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I did not think to find you there-
Crucifixes, large and small,
Sixpence and threepence, on a tray,
Among the artificial pearls,
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Gleam on gleam in the veilèd dawn
The feet of the Gods are but half withdrawn;
The Colour fringes their garments' hem,
And the stones of the desert remember them.
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We woke and watched the stars all jewel-bright.
Sudden I heard, as I lay lover-warm
In the encircling hollow of your arm,
The old sad wind of Egypt in the night-
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