More from Thomas Sturge Moore

  1. For milkmaids and queens and gipsy-princesses Dream and kiss blindfold or starve upon guesses.
  2. 'Shells with lip, or tooth, or bleeding gum, Tell-tale shells, and shells that whisper 'Come', Shells that stammer, blush, and yet are dumb…
  3. Then, cleaving the grass, gazelles appear (The gentler dolphins of kindlier waves) With sensitive heads alert of ear; Frail crowds that a d…
  4. In my opinion Mr. Moore is a greater poet than Mr. Yeats. He has lived obscurely, and has not displayed Mr. Yeats's talent for self-dramati…
  5. A sheep in sheep's clothing.

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