To look across at Moira gives me pleasure



To look across at Moira gives me pleasure.
She has a red tape measure.
Her dress is black and all the workroom's dreary,
And I am weary.
But that's like blood—like a thin blood stream trickling
Like a fire quickening.
It's Revolution. Ohé, I take pleasure
In Moira's red tape measure.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme AABBCCAA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 295
Words 53
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8

Lesbia Harford

 · 1891 · Brighton
 · 1927 · Melbourne

Lesbia Harford was an Australian poet, novelist and political activist. more…

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