Francis William Bourdillon Heart Poems

  • 1.
    She turned the page of wounds and death
    With trembling fingers. In a breath
    The gladness of her life became
    Naught but a memory and a name.
    ...
  • 2.
    The night has a thousand eyes,
    And the day but one;
    Yet the light of the bright world dies
    With the dying sun.
    ...
  • 3.
    Not here in the populous town,
    In the playhouse or mart,
    Not here in the ways gray and brown,
    Bnt afar on the green-swelling down,
    ...
  • 4.
    What have I given,
    Bold sailor on the sea?
    In earth or heaven,
    That you should die for me?
    ...
  • 5.
    Across the Glory of the glowing skies,
    A veil is drawn of shadowed mists that rise
    From lavishness from God's late gift. the rain.

    ...
  • 6.
    Light falls the rain
    On link and laine,
    After the burning day;
    And the bright scene,
    ...
  • 7.
    HE came to call me back from death
    To the bright world above.
    I hear him yet with trembling breath
    Low calling, รข??O sweet love!
    ...
  • 8.
    The night has a thousand eyes,
    And the day but one;
    Yet the light of the bright world dies
    With the dying sun.
    ...
  • 9.
    Oft had I felt, like pure Endymion,
    Such love for the sweet moon, that I had well
    Believed her able on earth to love and dwell
    With whatso man she set her love upon;
    ...
Total 9 Heart Poems by Francis William Bourdillon

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