"To A Daughter Leaving Home"~~~~~"Snow White and the Seven Deadly Sins~~~~~"Dream of Fair Women"~~~~~"Crossing the Bar"~~~~~"Sorting Laundry"~~~~~"Siren Song"~~~~~"Curiosity"~~~~~"Mirror"~~~~~"Death of a Soldier"~~~~~"One Perfect Rose"~~~~~"A Constant Lover"~~~~~"A Valediction: Forbidden Mourning"~~~~~"Get Up and Bar the Door"~~~~~"Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat Nor Drink"~~~~~"Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?"
The lady gave her trust, an apple fell,
And guilt began, and pain, and death as well,
In stories that we tell.
The lady gave her trust, the heavens shone
Upon a maiden mother, one alone
In ballads we have known.
O first and second Eve, O dream of men
Believing life is good or might have been
And that we live again!
A sleeping beauty dreams her lover's grace
Opens her eyes upon a human face,
Keeps up the human race.
Ann Hayes
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