A Few Figs from Thistles: Poems and SonnetsHarper & Brothers, 1922 - 39 psl. |
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Agatha Agatha's Arth all's apple awake baby Beauty beneath birth blessed bought caught child cold DAPHNE dawn dear dream edition fair faithful Faithless false father ferry FIGS FROM THISTLES fire floor flowers flung Forget You Presently gentle girl gloom gone back grown so free GROWN-UP hair head heard heart broke heel honest hug-the-hearth Joan KATHLEEN kind Latin lawn leave leprechaun liar Libraries Lifted light Little Sorrow live locked look love's lover MACDOUGAL STREET man's MERRY MAID MIDNIGHT OIL mind missing moon mother NEIGHBOR never night OVERHEARD SINGING patient pear PENITENT PHILOSOPHER Pink poems PORTRAIT pray prayer PRISONER Prue Queen RECUERDO rose Rotted SECOND FIG SINGING-WOMAN sleep smell smoke song SONNET-I SONNETS soul Sweet to meet tell There's thick things THINK throat THURSDAY tired true UNEXPLORER UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN unless walk weep What's wicked wind WOOD'S EDGE
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