Victoria Sackville-west Thought Poems

  • 1.
    So well she knew them both! yet as she came
    Into the room, and heard their speech
    Of tragic meshes knotted with her name,
    And saw them, foes, but meeting each with each
    ...
  • 2.
    Yes, they were kind exceedingly; most mild
    Even in indignation, taking by the hand
    One that obeyed them mutely, as a child
    Submissive to a law he does not understand.
    ...
  • 3.
    When little lights in little ports come out,
    Quivering down through water with the stars,
    And all the fishing fleet of slender spars
    Range at their moorings, veer with tide about;
    ...
  • 4.
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  • 5.
    And so it ends,
    We who were lovers may be friends.
    I have some weeks in which to steel
    My heart and teach myself to feel
    ...
  • 6.
    Cisterns and stones; the fig-tree in the wall
    Casts down her shadow, ashen as her boughs,
    Across the road, across the thick white dust.
    Down from the hill the slow white oxen crawl,
    ...
Total 6 Thought Poems by Victoria Sackville-west

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