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@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 3:15 AM

"The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth."

Poem: poets.org/poet/radclyf...

✒ #RadclyffeHall, English author (trailblazing lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness) and poet, #DOTD 7 October 1943. #Poetry #Literature

@catsbearsandme.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 4:34 PM

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#BlueskyPoetry
#RadclyffeHall

A Twilight Fancy by Radclyffe Hall

Dear, give me the tips of your fingers
To hold in this scented gloom,
‘ Mid the sighs of the dying roses,
That steal through the breeze-swept room ;

I would have you but lightly touch me,
A phantom might stir the dress,
In its passing, of some lost lover
With just such a faint caress;

Or a butterfly wan with summer
Brush thus with his down-flecked wings
The bells of the altar lilies
He touches, and lightly rings.

So give me the tips of your fingers,
Not your hand, lest I break the spell
Of the moment with too much passion,
And lose what I love so well.

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