Muna Lee was a poet, novelist, translator and activist. This collection, first published in 1923, explores themes of love and place. - Summary by Newgatenovelist
Chapters (63)
1The Singer
66
2The Thought of You
53
3The Stars are Colored Blossoms
63
4My Dreams of You are Sombre in the Twilight
54
5The Little White Flower
52
6The Blackbirds Fly before the Cold
48
7Melilot
46
8Song
46
9As Helen Once
47
10Lips You were Not Anhungered for
61
11When We Shall be Dust in the Churchyard
65
12I am So Glad That You are Dead
63
13Survival
62
14Now have I Conquered
42
15Dirge
47
16April Wind
47
17I Remember You because of a Grassy Hill
59
18I Shall Not Sing Again of Love
51
19I Have had Enough of Glamour
48
20A Woman’s Song
45
21Choice
44
22Harvest
44
23Gifts
63
24Imprisoned
84
25You Who Hear Only the Words
50
26Release
42
27Confidante
36
28I. Spring; II. November
42
29Amparo
33
30The Host
42
31Out of My Turbulent Days
45
32Yellow Leaves
34
33The Yellow Daisies
47
34A Song of Happiness
54
35Apple Boughs
50
36New Birth
66
37Foreword
77
38‘These things I know’
79
39‘I have been happy’
80
40‘I make no question of your right to go’
84
41‘I have a thousand pictures of the sea’
76
42‘Life of itself will be cruel and hard enough’
85
43‘There have been many Junes with larkspur blowing’
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