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EVENINGS IN GREECE: THE LESBIAN MAID, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As o'er her loom the lesbian maid
Last Line: With thinking of that youth I love!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Suicide


AS o'er her loom the Lesbian Maid
In love-sick languor hung her head,
Unknowing where her fingers strayed,
She weeping turned away, and said:
'Oh, my sweet Mother—'tis in vain—
I cannot weave, as once I wove—
So wildered is my heart and brain
With thinking of that youth I love!'

Again the web she tried to trace,
But tears fell o'er each tangled thread;
While, looking in her mother's face
Who o'er her watchful leaned, she said:
'Oh, my sweet mother—'tis in vain—
I cannot weave, as once I wove—
So wildered is my heart and brain
With thinking of that youth I love!'





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