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    Poems

    By Nora May French

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    DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Poems" by Nora May French. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDigiCat
    Release dateSep 16, 2022
    ISBN8596547348719

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      Poems - Nora May French

      Nora May French

      Poems

      EAN 8596547348719

      DigiCat, 2022

      Contact: DigiCat@okpublishing.info

      Table of Contents

      IN CAMP

      I

      II

      THE NYMPH

      VIVISECTION

      THE STRANGER

      THE CONSTANT ONES

      INSTINCT

      SAN FRANCISCO NEW YEAR’S, 1907

      THE POPPY FIELD

      YOU

      JUST A DOG

      MIRAGE [5]

      DUSK

      THE SPANISH GIRL

      PART I

      PART II

      PART III

      THE GARDEN OF DOLORES

      INDIFFERENCE

      AFTER-KNOWLEDGE

      TWO SPENDTHRIFT KINGS

      GROWTH

      CHANGE

      WISTARIA

      MY NOOK

      WHEN PLAINTIVELY AND NEAR THE CRICKET SINGS

      THE LITTLE MEMORIES

      PASS BY

      IN EMPTY COURTS

      DOWN THE TRAIL

      BELLS FROM OVER THE HILLS SOUND SWEET.— Russian Proverb.

      IN TOWN

      MOODS

      I

      II

      A MISTY MORNING

      TWO SONGS

      NOON

      YOUR BEAUTIFUL PASSING

      BY MOONLIGHT

      ONE DAY

      THE MISSION GRAVES

      ALONG THE TRACK

      A PLACE OF DREAMS

      THINK NOT, O LILIAS

      TO ROSY BUDS....

      YESTERDAY

      THE MOURNER

      AVE ATQUE VALE

      IN CAMP

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      I

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      AS down I bent with eager lips

      Above the stones and cresses cool—

      The yellow tent, the little moon,

      I found within my twilight pool.

      The fringing trees, the floating moon,

      The bubble tent—I passed them by,

      And sipped a tiny, shattered star,

      Deep drinking from that mirrored sky.

      II

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      MY tent is shadowed day and night

      With leaves that shift in moon and sun;

      Across its walls of lucent white

      The lovely varied tracings run;

      And black and slender, quickly sped,

      I watch the little feet at dawn—

      A sudden oriole overhead,

      A darting linnet come and gone.

      THE NYMPH

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      FROM forest paths we turned us, nymphs, new-made,

      And, lifting eyes abashed with great desire

      Before high Jove, the gift of souls we prayed.

      Whereat he said: "O perfect as new leaves

      New glossed and veined with blood of perfect days

      And stirred to murmured speech in fragrant eves,

      "Still ask ye souls? Behold, I give instead

      Into each breast a bird with fettered wings,

      A bird fast holden with a silken thread:

      "To fall from trial of flight with strength swift spent,

      To sing of mating and the brooding grass,

      To turn thy being earthward to content."

      Within me sudden wrath and terror strove,

      And, casting forth his gift I

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