Alice Meynell Sky Poems

  • 1.
    The leaves are many under my feet,
    And drift one way.
    Their scent of death is weary and sweet.
    A flight of them is in the grey
    ...
  • 2.
    Listen, and when thy hand this paper presses,
    O time-worn woman, think of her who blesses
    What thy thin fingers touch, with her caresses.

    ...
  • 3.
    My heart shall be thy garden. Come, my own,
    Into thy garden; thine be happy hours
    Among my fairest thoughts, my tallest flowers,
    From root to crowning petal, thine alone.
    ...
  • 4.
    On London fell a clearer light;
    Caressing pencils of the sun
    Defined the distances, the white
    Houses transfigured one by one,
    ...
  • 5.
    New delights to our desire
    The singers of the past can yield.
    I lift mine eyes to hill and field,
    And see in them your yet dumb lyre,
    ...
  • 6.
    Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn,
    Unseen, this colourless sky of folded showers,
    And folded winds; no blossom in the bowers;
    A poet's face asleep in this grey morn.
    ...
Total 6 Sky Poems by Alice Meynell

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