Presences

 This night has been so strange that it seemed
As if the hair stood up on my head.

From going-down of the sun I have dreamed
That women laughing, or timid or wild,
In rustle of lace or silken stuff,
Climbed up my creaking stair.
 They had read
All I had rhymed of that monstrous thing
Returned and yet unrequited love.

They stood in the door and stood between
My great wood lectern and the fire
Till I could hear their hearts beating:
One is a harlot, and one a child
That never looked upon man with desire.

And one, it may be, a queen.

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