Oh, I can smile for you, and tilt my head,And drink your rushing words with eager lips,And paint my mouth for you a fragrant red,And trace your brows with tutored…
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Once, when I was young and true, Someone left me sad–Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, Love is but a curse.Once there was…
When I am old, and comforted, And done with this desire,With Memory to share my bed And Peace to share my fire, I’ll comb my hair in scalloped bands;;Beneath my laundered cap,And…
So silent I when Love was byHe yawned, and turned away;But Sorrow clings to my apron-strings,I have so much to say.
Oh, both my shoes are shiny new, And pristine is my hat;My dress is 1922…. My life is all like that.
Authors and actors and artists and suchNever know nothing, and never know much.Sculptors and singers and those of their kidneyTell their affairs from Seattle to Sydney.Playwrights and poets and such…
If I were mild, and I were sweet,And laid my heart before your feet,And took my dearest thoughts to you,And hailed your easy lies as true;Were I to murmur “Yes,”…
Were you to cross the world, my dear, To work or love or fight,I could be calm and wistful here, And close my eyes at night. It were a sweet and gallant…
All her hours were yellow sands,Blown in foolish whorls and tassels;Slipping warmly through her hands;Patted into little castles. Shiny day on shiny dayTumbled in a rainbow clutter,As she flipped them…
Some men break your heart in two, Some men fawn and flatter,Some men never look at you; And that cleans up the matter.
This level reach of blue is not my sea;Here are sweet waters, pretty in the sun,Whose quiet ripples meet obedientlyA marked and measured line, one after one.This is no sea…
Travel, trouble, music, art, A kiss, a frock, a rhyme–I never said they feed my heart, But still they pass my time.
Say my love is easy had, Say I’m bitten raw with pride,Say I am too often sad– Still behold me at your side. Say I’m neither brave nor young, Say I woo and…
Never love a simple lad, Guard against a wise,Shun a timid youth and sad, Hide from haunted eyes. Never hold your heart in pain For an evil-doer;Never flip it down the lane To a…
If I had a shiny gun,I could have a world of funSpeeding bullets through the brainsOf the folk who give me pains; Or had I some poison gas,I could make…
For this my mother wrapped me warm,And called me home against the storm,And coaxed my infant nights to quiet,And gave me roughage in my diet,And tucked me in my bed…
Woman wants monogamy;Man delights in novelty.Love is woman’s moon and sun;Man has other forms of fun.Woman lives but in her lord;Count to ten, and man is bored.With this the gist…
The day that I was christened– It’s a hundred years, and more!–A hag came and listened At the white church door,A-hearing her that bore me And all my kith and kinConsiderately, for me, Renouncing…
A nobler king had never breath– I say it now, and said it then.Who weds with such is wed till death And wedded stays in Heaven. Amen. (And oh, the shirts of…
In youth, it was a way I had To do my best to please,And change, with every passing lad, To suit his theories. But now I know the things I…
Her mind lives in a quiet room, A narrow room, and tall,With pretty lamps to quench the gloom And mottoes on the wall. There all the things are waxen neat And set in…
The ladies men admire, I’ve heard,Would shudder at a wicked word.Their candle gives a single light;They’d rather stay at home at night.They do not keep awake till three,Nor read ******…
The stars are soft as flowers, and as near; The hills are webs of shadow, slowly spun;No separate leaf or single blade is here– All blend to one. No moonbeam cuts the…
They say of me, and so they should,It’s doubtful if I come to good.I see acquaintances and friendsAccumulating dividends,And making enviable namesIn science, art, and parlor games.But I, despite expert…
Men seldom make passesAt girls who wear glasses.