With fruit and flowers the board is decked, The wine and laughter flow; I'll not complain—could one expect So dull a world to know? You look across the fruit and flowers, My glance your glances find.— It is our secret, only ours, Since all the world is blind.

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At a Dinner Party by Amy Levy

Amy Levy, 'Straw in the Street'. I have started reading her poems since the announcement about Cambridge University Library acquiring her archive. I struggle to find ways through Victorian poetry -- these seem to me very good indeed / #Booksky #C19 #AmyLevy

‘A girl of genius’: archives unsealed of Amy Levy, queer Jewish writer admired by Oscar Wilde Levy’s work was ‘ahead of her time’ and speaks to current debate around feminism, LGBTQ+ literature and Jewish identity, say researchers

This is so exciting!

‘A girl of genius’: archives unsealed of Amy Levy, queer Jewish writer admired by Oscar Wilde

"once hailed as a genius by Oscar Wilde"

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

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All day we have plied the oar; all day
Eager and keen have said our say
On life and death, on love and art,
On good or ill at Nature's heart.
Now, grown so tired, we scarce can lift
The lazy oars, but onward drift.
And the silence is only stirred
Here and there by a broken word.
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