Mother and Poet
I.
Dead ! One of t by t,
And one of t in t by the sea.
Dead ! bot at t
And are ing a great song for Italy free,
Let none look at me !
II.
Yet I ess only last year,
And good at my art, for a woman, men said ;
But this, who is agonized here,
-- t sea and sea rhyme on in her head
For ever instead.
III.
art can a ? Oh, vain !
art is s, but ing
iteet the pain ?
A ! you rong as you pressed,
And I proud, by t test.
IV.
arts for a o hold on her knees
Boto feel all t,
Cling, strangle a little ! to sew by degrees
And broider t little coat ;
to dream and to doat.
V.
to teac stings them indeed
Speak plain try. I taug,
t a countrys a t need.
I prated of liberty, rig
tyrant cast out.
VI.
And wiful eyes ! ...
I exulted ; nay, let t the wheels
Of t. But the surprise
s quite alone ! then one kneels !
God, he house feels !
VII.
At first, ters moiled
ith my kisses, -- of camp-life and glory, and how
to be spoiled
In return would fan off every fly from my brow
itheir green laurel-bough.
VIII.
triump turin : `Ancona was free !
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And some one came out of treet,
itone, to say someto me.
My Guido ,
reet.
IX.
I bore it ; friends soothed me ; my grie