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Sweetest Smile Videopoems

I Was the Reluctant Lover

This poem was inspired by a visit to the National Gallery in London a few years ago, and is in fact a …

What Could Never Be

In half sleep, half dreaming Darkness fills the midnight sky Stars twinkle behind the clouds That hide them from my eye… She …

Lettera D’amore

Cara mia, ti voglio bene… “My darling, I love you The words to her I wanted to say But I never did, …

Maud Gonne: Yeats Inspiration

The second verse refers to the Lady of the Sweetest Smile, the authors own Maud Gonne, though not of the military kind, …

The Courtly Lovers

Her eyes caught mine, and then her smile Wrought tears from my heart, not blood: From me she has flown, from afar …

Lady of the Sweetest Smile

I Lady of the sweetest smile In this town and round for many a mile Laughter, fun, and all with grace, The …