Wild honey from various thyme By Michael Field [i.e. K. H. Bradley and E. E. Cooper] |
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SILENCE IN WOODS |
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SILENCE IN WOODS
Not false, significant of hooded speech,
Guilty for shade, as man interpreteth:
Crystal and naked, of most open breath,
She threads the little ways of oak and beech.
Guilty for shade, as man interpreteth:
Crystal and naked, of most open breath,
She threads the little ways of oak and beech.
How confident this silence: at her ease
She pats her breast, a sailing feather skims;
And on the whortles cushioning happy limbs
Shakes the small leaves at moments as a breeze.
She pats her breast, a sailing feather skims;
And on the whortles cushioning happy limbs
Shakes the small leaves at moments as a breeze.
When seeds drop round her, hollow, bursting knells
Rise as if bubbles split themselves and ceased;
Sometimes a dove, or stoat, or youngling beast
Rise as if bubbles split themselves and ceased;
Sometimes a dove, or stoat, or youngling beast
She cuddles to her flesh in those close dells:
—Then lets it go so noiselessly we feel
Only her skin's warm heave from neck to heel.
—Then lets it go so noiselessly we feel
Only her skin's warm heave from neck to heel.
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