Anna Hempstead Branch Laugh Poems
- 1. The Monk In The Kitchen
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Order is a lovely thing;
On disarray it lays its wing,
... - 2. Grieve Not, Ladies
Oh, grieve not, Ladies, if at night
Ye wake to feel your beauty going.
It was a web of frail delight,
Inconstant as an April snowing.
... - 3. Dream
But now the Dream has come again, the world is as of old.
Once more I feel about my breast the heartening splendors fold.
Now I am back in that good place from which my footsteps came,
And I am hushed of any grief and have laid by my shame.
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