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But, my Eleanor,
Since all he knows is that you long ago
Took back your love, were it not possible
That he should silently be measuring
The present with the past and noting down
The unconscious signals?
Lady Boycott.
Not another word,
Not one smooth word of hope. When he did love
I knew before he spoke - half knew, I think,
Before he knew it. Now I as well know
He'll never, never, never think again
Of love and me together. Not if I crawled
To wile him on with all sweet artifice
Of wooings and of shrinkings interchanged
Which many women do not shame to use,
And all men smile at, pleased to be deceived:
Not if I worshipped him with the fine fumes
Of delicate nice flattery some I know
Will offer to their idol, while his brain
Grows dizzy with the scent and pleasant mist:
Not if I played at him the pouts and scolds
And provocations of a mimic feud:
Not if I pleased him with an equal mind
To be convinced by arguments of his:
Not if I sang to tears for him, made mirth,
Were sad, wise, foolish, all for him alone:
Not if I lived my whole poor life for him:
No, not if it were so that I might die
To serve him something: he'd not love me yet,
He could not. When you're in a pleasant dream
And some one wakes you rudely, try your most,
You cannot dream again that selfsame dream.
'Tis over, gone. You cannot even think
Exactly how it went, with what quick turns.
You'll dream again, perhaps, as he, they say,
Dreams once more now, but not that dream again -
Oh never that.
Kind Mary, talk to me
Of other things. No, let me tell you first,
(Lest you should too far scorn me), how it came
This new old love sprang sudden to a growth
Beyond my checking now.
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A Messenger
A Mother's Cry
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Dead Amy
Deserted
Dreaming
Glad Waves
Going
How The Brook Sings
If
In The Storm
In The Sunshine
Looking Downstairs
Mary Lost
Never Again
Night Whispers
On The Lake
On The Shore
Our Lily
Passing Away
Perjured
Safe
Shadow
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The Blush Rose
The Gift
The Heiress' Wooer
The Hidden Wound
The Lake
The Land Of Happy Dreams
The Old Year Out
The Red Star On The Hill
The River
The Setting Star
The Shadow Of A Cloud
To And Fro
To One Of Many
Too faithful
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