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Born in 1891 / Died in 1927 / Australia / English

Poems by Lesbia Harford

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"I read a statement in a newspaper"

... Had triumphed in this case and would perhaps ...

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"I am no mystic. All the ways of God"

... In agony. My every act has reference to man ...

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"He looks in my heart and the image there"

... But my heart is much more like a stream, I think, ...

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"O great golden head lie in my lap"

... Sleep and I'll watch thee lest evil behap ...

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"Sometimes I am too tired"

... Today, for certain, you'd be weary too ...

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"Now I've been three days"

... In the place where I am staying, ...

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"My window pane is broken"

... Just a bit Where the small curtain doesn't ...

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"I had a lover who betrayed me"

... Twice in long years he's chanced to meet me ...

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"A lady and I were walking"

... That's what my love in prison ...

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Periodicity

... In the fierce depths and uttermost pits of hell ...

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Mortal Poems

... That they might deck the hours ...

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"In this little school"

... There's no struggle here ...

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"Green and blue"

... Later came Small subtle colours like tongues of flame, ...

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"If I had six white horses"

... Thus were the hearts blood o' the world ...

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"I used to be afraid to meet"

... Because they'll never know I'm there ...