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The Prophet
Ah, my darling, when over the purple horizon shall loom
The shrouded mother of a new idea, men hide their faces,
Cry out and fend her off, as she seeks her procreant groom,
Wounding themselves against her, denying her fecund embraces.
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Plays
Poetry
- A Baby Asleep After Pain
- A Baby Running Barefoot
- A Love Song
- A Passing Bell
- A Spiritual Woman
- A Winter's Tale
- After Many Days
- Anxiety
- Apprehension
- At the Window
- Autumn Sunshine
- Ballad of Another Ophelia
- Birdcage Walk
- Bitterness of Death
- Blue
- Brooding Grief
- Brother and Sister
- Coming Awake
- Débâcle
- Discipline
- Discord in Childhood
- Dissolute
- Dolor of Autumn
- Dreams Old and Nascent
- Drunk
- Elegy
- Embankment at Night, before the War
- Epilogue
- Everlasting Flowers
- Excursion
- Firelight and Nightfall
- Flapper
- Flat Suburbs, S.W., in the Morning
- From a College Window
- Gipsy
- Grey Evening
- Heimweh
- Hyde Park at Night, before the War
- In a Boat
- In Church
- In Trouble and Shame
- Intime
- Irony
- Last Words to Miriam
- Letter from Town: On a Grey Evening in March
- Letter from Town: The Almond Tree
- Liaison
- Listening
- Lotus Hurt by the Cold
- Love Storm
- Malade
- Mating
- Monologue of a Mother
- Mystery
- Narcissus
- Next Morning
- On That Day
- Palimpsest of Twilight
- Parliament Hill in the Evening
- Patience
- Perfidy
- Phantasmagoria
- Piano
- Piccadilly Circus at Night
- Reading a Letter
- Reproach
- Restlessness
- Scent of Irises
- School on the Outskirts
- Seven Seals
- Sickness
- Sigh No More
- Silence
- Snap Dragon
- Sorrow
- Study
- Submergence
- Suburbs on a Hazy Day
- Tarantella
- Tease
- The Bride
- The End
- The Enkindled Spring
- The Hands of the Betrothed
- The Inheritance
- The Mystic Blue
- The North Country
- The Prophet
- The Punisher
- The Virgin Mother
- The Wild Common
- Thief in the Night
- Troth with the Dead
- Twenty Years Ago
- Two Wives
- Two-Fold
- Under the Oak
- Virgin Youth
- Week-night Service
- Winter in the Boulevard
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