Victoria Sackville-west Love Poems

• 1. Beechwoods At Knole
  How do I love you, beech-trees, in the autumn,
  Your stone-grey columns a cathedral nave
  Processional above the earth's brown glory!
  
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• 2. Song
  If I had only loved your flesh
  And careless damned your soul to Hell,
  I might have laughed and loved afresh,
  And loved as lightly and as well,
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• 3. The Greater Cats
  The greater cats with golden eyes
  Stare out between the bars.
  Deserts are there, and the different skies,
  And night with different stars.
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• 4. Bitterness
  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.
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