User:Anthologetes

Some favorite lines from what I've worked on:


 * All of Watson's "Requiescat"


 * From Watson's "Vespertilia":


 * Hard by the ancient barrow smooth and green,
 * Whose rounded burg swells dark upon the sky
 * Lording it high o'er dusky dell and dene,
 * We wandered—she and I.




 * "Long since," she sighed, "I sought this island grey.
 * Here where the wind moans and the sun is dim,
 * When his beaked galleys cleft the ocean spray,
 * For love I followed him."




 * Ah, hadst thou loved me but a little while,
 * I might have lived again.




 * Ever the thought of her abides with me
 * Unceasing as the murmur of the sea


 * From Watkin's "Under Grey Skies" (which, on the whole, is quite bad—but certain lines, pulled from the full stanzas, are pleasant):


 * Dimly I saw the fair pale face
 * Uplifted, like a slender ﬂower
 * In some forgotten garden-place [...]




 * And all my heart went out to thine,
 * And the lips trembled, as to show
 * The ﬁre of love that might not shine;
 * For, through the glamour and the glow,
 * I felt the clear eyes turned on mine,
 * That knew not love, and could not know.




 * Under grey skies I stand again, [...]