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CheerfulKatherine Mansfield

The Candle Fairy

The candle is a fairy house That’s smooth and round and white, And Mother carries it about Whenever it is night. Right at the top a fairy lives, A lovely yellow one, And if you blow a little bit It has all sorts of fun. It bows and dances by itself In such a clever way, And then it stretches very tall; “Well, it grows fast,” you say. The little chimney of the house Is black and really sweet, And there the candle fairy stands Though you can’t see its feet.
DreamyKatherine Mansfield

Fairy Tale

Now folds the Tree of Day its perfect flowers, And every bloom becomes a bud again, Shut and sealed up against the golden showers Of bees that hover in the velvet hours.... Now a strain Wild and mournful blown from shadow towers, Echoed from shadow ships upon the foam, Proclaims the Queen of Night. From their bowers The dark Princesses fluttering, wing their flight To their old Mother, in her huge old home.
DreamyKatherine Mansfield

Out in the Garden

Out in the garden, Out in the windy, swinging dark, Under the trees and over the flower-beds, Over the grass and under the hedge border, Someone is sweeping, sweeping, Some old gardener. Out in the windy, swinging dark, Someone is secretly putting in order, Someone is creeping, creeping.
ContemplativeKatherine Mansfield

There Is a Solemn Wind To-night

There is a solemn wind to-night That sings of solemn rain; The trees that have been quiet so long Flutter and start again. The slender trees, the heavy trees, The fruit trees laden and proud, Lift up their branches to the wind That cries to them so loud. The little bushes and the plants Bow to the solemn sound, And every tiniest blade of grass Shakes on the quiet ground.
DreamyKatherine Mansfield

Night-Scented Stock

White, white in the milky night The moon danced over a tree. “Wouldn’t it be lovely to swim in the lake!” Someone whispered to me. “Oh, do--do--do!” cooed someone else, And clasped her hands to her chin. “I should so love to see the white bodies-- All the white bodies jump in!” The big dark house hid secretly Behind the magnolia and the spreading pear-tree, But there was a sound of music--music rippled and ran Like a lady laughing behind her fan, Laughing and mocking and running away ... “Come into the garden--it’s as light as day!” “I can’t dance to that Hungarian stuff, The rhythm in it is not passionate enough,”
CheerfulKatherine Mansfield

Camomile Tea

Outside the sky is light with stars; There’s a hollow roaring from the sea. And, alas! for the little almond flowers, The wind is shaking the almond tree. How little I thought, a year ago, In that horrible cottage upon the Lee That he and I should be sitting so And sipping a cup of camomile tea. Light as feathers the witches fly, The horn of the moon is plain to see; By a firefly under a jonquil flower A goblin toasts a bumble-bee. We might be fifty, we might be five, So snug, so compact, so wise are we! Under the kitchen-table leg My knee is pressing against his knee.
SadKatherine Mansfield

The Meeting

We started speaking, Looked at each other, then turned away. The tears kept rising to my eyes But I could not weep. I wanted to take your hand But my hand trembled. You kept counting the days Before we should meet again. But both of us felt in our hearts That we parted for ever and ever. The ticking of the little clock filled the quiet room. “Listen,” I said. “It is so loud, Like a horse galloping on a lonely road, As loud as that--a horse galloping past in the night.” You shut me up in your arms. But the sound of the clock stifled our hearts’ beating.
SadKatherine Mansfield

Loneliness

Now it is Loneliness who comes at night Instead of Sleep, to sit beside my bed. Like a tired child I lie and wait her tread, I watch her softly blowing out the light. Motionless sitting, neither left nor right She turns, and weary, weary droops her head. She, too, is old; she, too, has fought the fight. So, with the laurel she is garlanded. Through the sad dark the slowly ebbing tide Breaks on a barren shore, unsatisfied. A strange wind flows ... then silence. I am fain To turn to Loneliness, to take her hand, Cling to her, waiting, till the barren land Fills with the dreadful monotone of rain.

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