Love Sonnet X
Zora Bernice May Cross And then came Science with her torch red-lit And cosmic marvels round her glowing head— The primal cell, the worm, the quadruped— Striving to make each to the other fit.read more
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Zora Bernice May Cross My mind and heart both love you utterly. And so each thought of mine is doubly yours, And all my will about your body pours Scents of my blood and fires that flow from me.read more
View ArticleLove Sonnet LVIII
Zora Bernice May Cross Do not surcharge our souls with that vile blame To which our bodies are subjected here; Nor heap them with the horror of dull fear Base-borrowed from a life of torpid shame.read...
View ArticleLove Sonnet LIV
Zora Bernice May Cross What have you more than I, who crave you so? Have I not hands and feet and thoughts to tell? All my sweet senses and fine dreams that swell Rich with contentments that the...
View ArticleGirl-Gladness
Zora Bernice May Cross It’s holiday time on the hollyhock hills, And I wish you would come with me laddie-love, now, The butterfly-bells, from the Folly-fool rills, Will ring if you listen, and drop...
View ArticleFortune
Zora Bernice May Cross Dame Fortune’s jade with a fanciful horn Of silver ambitions she warns of the flame; With pearls for the princes and tears night and morn For poor little poets who fluttered for...
View ArticleElegy On An Australian Schoolboy
Zora Bernice May Cross I would not curse your England, wise as slow, Just as unjust in deed. I can believe that from her heart may flow The truest human creed. She sounded one high call of Libertyread...
View ArticleBooks
Zora Bernice May Cross Oh! Bury me in books when I am dead, Fair quarto leaves of ivory and gold, And silk octavos, bound in brown and red, That tales of love and chivalry unfold.read more
View ArticleLove Sonnet XXI
Zora Bernice May Cross If there should be a moon above the hill To-night, dip down with me into the sea Of our first passion, and, with naked glee, Breathe its ripe wonder to our beings’ fill.read more
View ArticleSonnet Of Motherhood XL
Zora Bernice May Cross A miracle of miracles is here. Take off your shoes. This place is holy ground. No man-child ours like that the shepherd found By dreaming Mary when the Star burned clear.read more
View ArticleSonnet Of Motherhood X
Zora Bernice May Cross I walked among the flowers that bend their heads Low to the earth and back again to light, Hearing them prattle of their blue and white— Violet and jasmine in the bordered...
View ArticleThe New Moon
Zora Bernice May Cross What have you got in your knapsack fair, White moon, bright moon, pearling the air, Spinning your bobbins and fabrics free, Fleet moon, sweet moon, in to the sea?read more
View ArticleSonnet Of Motherhood XXXI
Zora Bernice May Cross Beloved, I who shall be mother soon Need mothering myself this tired hour, As heavily the sweet and precious power Weighs on my heart till I am near to swoon.read more
View ArticleSonnet Of Motherhood XXIX
Zora Bernice May Cross How strangely lone unto myself I grow, Listening and looking for I know not what; Turning my head with terror cold and hot At wandering whispers of a music low! Familiar pieces...
View ArticleSonnet Of Motherhood XXIV
Zora Bernice May Cross How many holy women mothered me And brought me to perfection for this hour, When from my being all the living power Of sweetest woman should at last flow free? Aeons on Aeons on...
View ArticleSonnet Of Motherhood XXVII
Zora Bernice May Cross O, not alone I weave this miracle Of glowing spirit from my body’s zone. With every moment of the life unknown You feed the glory of a growing cell. All day I think of you, and...
View ArticleLove Sonnet X
Zora Bernice May Cross And then came Science with her torch red-lit And cosmic marvels round her glowing head— The primal cell, the worm, the quadruped— Striving to make each to the other fit.read more
View ArticleLove Sonnet LX
Zora Bernice May Cross My mind and heart both love you utterly. And so each thought of mine is doubly yours, And all my will about your body pours Scents of my blood and fires that flow from me.read more
View ArticleLove Sonnet LVIII
Zora Bernice May Cross Do not surcharge our souls with that vile blame To which our bodies are subjected here; Nor heap them with the horror of dull fear Base-borrowed from a life of torpid shame.read...
View ArticleLove Sonnet LIV
Zora Bernice May Cross What have you more than I, who crave you so? Have I not hands and feet and thoughts to tell? All my sweet senses and fine dreams that swell Rich with contentments that the...
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