Love Poems – Page 3407

• Setting Sail

  Exultation is the going / Of an inland soul to sea, — / Past the houses, past the headlands, …

• Several Questions Answered

  Several Questions Answerd / He who binds to himself a joy / Doth the winged life destroy …

• Severer Service of myself

  Severer Service of myself / I — hastened to demand / To fill the awful Vacuum …

• Sexton! My Master's sleeping here.

  Sexton! My Master's sleeping here. / Pray lead me to his bed! / I came to build the Bird's nest, …

• Shall I take thee, the Poet said

  Shall I take thee, the Poet said / To the propounded word? / Be stationed with the Candidates …

• Shame is the shawl of Pink

  Shame is the shawl of Pink / In which we wrap the Soul / To keep it from infesting Eyes — …

• She bore it till the simple veins

  She bore it till the simple veins / Traced azure on her hand — / Til pleading, round her quiet eyes …

• She could not live upon the Past

  She could not live upon the Past / The Present did not know her / And so she sought this sweet at last …

• She dealt her pretty words like Blades —

  She dealt her pretty words like Blades — / How glittering they shone — / And every One unbared a Nerve …

• She died at play,

  She died at play, / Gambolled away / Her lease of spotted hours, …

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