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Charlotte Mew

Charlotte Mew, "Absence"

Posted on June 19, 2010 by Victoria Janssen

Absence Sometimes I know the wayYou walk, up over the bay;It is a wind from that far seaThat blows the fragrance of your hair to me. Or in this garden when the breezeTouches my treesTo stir their dreaming shadows on … Continue reading →

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Charlotte Mew, "The Cenotaph"

Posted on December 27, 2009 by Victoria Janssen

The Cenotaph September 1919 Not yet will those measureless fields be green againWhere only yesterday the wild sweet blood of wonderful youth was shed;There is a grave whose earth must hold too long, too deep a stain,Though for ever over … Continue reading →

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