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Lines That Could Have Been Written and Lost Round About 1922

Silent battles of the sunset
in the outlying suburbs,
forever ancient defeats of a war…

Love has gone and left me, and the days are all alike.
Eat I must,…

To the passionate lover, whose sighs come back to him on every breeze, all the…

Fly hence, shadows, that do keep
Watchful sorrows charmed in sleep!
Tho’ the eyes be…

Thou unrelenting Past!
Strong are the barriers round thy dark domain,
And fetters, sure and…

I am weary of being bitter and weary of being wise,
And the armor and…

I stand in the cold gray weather,
In the white and silvery rain;
The great…

If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If…

‘The wind doth blow today, my love,
And a few small drops of rain;
I…

Stir—
Shake off sleep.
Your eyes are the soul of clear waters—
Pigeons
In a…