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At Parting
Go, since you must, but, Dearest, know
That, Honour having bid you go,
Your honour, if your life be spent,
Shall have a costly monument.
This heart, that fire and roses is
Beneath the magic of your kiss,
Shall turn to marble if you die
And be your deathless effigy.
1914.
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- As It Is
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- At The Last
- Before Winter
- Faith
- Fear
- For Dolly
- From the Portuguese
- Gratitude
- Gretna Green
- Hop Picking
- Hope
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- In The People's Park
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- Incompatibilities
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- May Day
- Oh What A Day!
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- Questions
- Saturday Song
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- Song
- Spring In War-Time
- Surrender
- The Champion
- The Daisies
- The Day of Judgment
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- The December Rose
- The Despot
- The Eternal
- The Fields of Flanders
- The Fire
- The Garden Refused
- The Gift of Life
- The Home-Coming
- The Last Bright Relic
- The Last Defeat
- The Magic Ring
- The Mother's Prayer
- The Nest
- The Old Magic
- The Point of View
- The Prodigal's Return
- The Return
- The Skylark
- The Stolen God
- The Swans Along the Water Glide
- The Touchstone
- The Vault--After Sedgmoor
- The Whirligig of Time
- These Little Ones
- To Her: In Time Of War
- Values
- Wedding Day
- What O'Clock?
- Where Do We Fly?
- White Magic
- Windflowers
- Winter
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