Street Lanterns
Country roads are yellow and brown
We mend the roads in London town
Never a hansom dare come nigh, Never a cart goes rolling by
An unwonted silence steals In between the turning wheels
Country roads are yellow and brown
We mend the roads in London town
Never a hansom dare come nigh, Never a cart goes rolling by
An unwonted silence steals In between the turning wheels
There's no smoke in the chimney, And the rain beats on the floor; There's no glass in the window, There's no wood in the door; The heather grows behind the house, And the sand lies before
No hand hath trained the ivy, The walls are grey and b...
I sat before my glass one day,
And conjured up a vision bare,
Unlike the aspects glad and gay,
That erst were found reflected there - The vision of a woman, wild With more than womanly despair
A green eye-and a red-in the dark
Thunder-smoke-and a spark
It is there-it is here-flashed by
Whither will the wild thing fly
I
VE walked a great while over the snow,
And I am not tall nor strong
My clothes are wet, and my teeth are set,
Strange Power,
I know not what thou art,
Murderer or mistress of my heart
I know I'd rather meet the blow
We were young, we were merry, we were very very wise,
And the door stood open at our feast,
When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes,
And a man with his back to the East
WE never said farewell, nor even looked Our last upon each other, for no sign Was made when we the linkèd chain unhooked And broke the level line
And here we dwell together, side by side,
Our places fixed for life upon the chart
Two...
When my love did what I would not, what I would not,
I could hear his merry voice upon the wind,
Crying, "e;
Fairest, shut your eyes, for see you should not
On alien ground, breathing an alien air,
A Roman stood, far from his ancient home,
And gazing, murmured,"Ah, the hills are fair,
But not the hills of Rome