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And so it ends

And so it ends

And so it ends,

We who were lovers may be friends.

I have some weeks in which to steel

My heart and teach myself to feel

Only a sober tenderness

Where once was passion's loveliness.

I had not thought that there would come

Your touch to make our music dumb,

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Full Moon

Full Moon

She was wearing the coral taffeta trousers

Someone had brought her from Ispahan,

And the little gold coat with pomegranate blossoms,

And the coral-hafted feather fan;

But she ran down a Kentish lane in the moonlight,

And skipped in the pool of the moon as she ran.

She cared not a rap for all the big planets,

For Betelgeuse or Aldebaran,

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The Greater Cats

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.

They prowl the aromatic hill,

And mate as fiercely as they kill,

To roam, to live, to drink their fill;

But this beyond their wit know I:

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Days I enjoy

Days I enjoy

Days I enjoy are days when nothing happens,

When I have no engagements written on my block,

When no one comes to disturb my inward peace,

When no one comes to take me away from myself

And turn me into a patchwork, a jig-saw puzzle,

A broken mirror that once gave a whole reflection,

Being so contrived that it takes too long a time

To get myself back to myself when they have gone.

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Moonlight

Moonlight

What time the meanest brick and stone

Take on a beauty not their own,

And past the flaw of builded wood

Shines the intention whole and good,

And all the little homes of man

Rise to a dimmer, nobler span;

When colour's absence gives escape

To the deeper spirit of the shape,

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