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...I thought I must make it alone. I
Have done that.

Only in dream, like this dawn,
Does the grave, awed intensity
Of our young love
Return to my mind, to my flesh.

We had what the others
All crave and seek for;
We left it behind at nineteen.

I feel ancient, as though I had 
Lived many lives.

And may never now know
If I am a fool
Or have done what my
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...eed the warning, lay alone serene and slight,
   Till the rosy spears of morning slew the darkness of the night.

   Young love, walking softly, found her, in the scented, shady closes,
   Threw his ardent arms around her, kissed her lips beneath the roses.

   And she said, with smiles and blushes, "Would that I had sooner known!
   Never now the morning thrushes wake and find me all alone.

   "Since you said the rose-leaf cover sweet protection gave, but slight,
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...Out of my heart, one treach'rous winter's day,
I locked young Love and threw the key away.
Grief, wandering widely, found the key,
And hastened with it, straightway, back to me,
With Love beside him. He unlocked the door
And bade Love enter with him there and stay.
And so the twain abide for evermore.
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...he green-sward,
Couched with her arms behind her golden head,
Knees and tresses folded to slip and ripple idly,
Lies my young love sleeping in the shade.
Had I the heart to slide an arm beneath her,
Press her parting lips as her waist I gather slow,
Waking in amazement she could not but embrace me:
Then would she hold me and never let me go?

Shy as the squirrel and wayward as the swallow,
Swift as the swallow along the river's light
Circleting the surface to meet his mirrore...Read more of this...

...ure says: 'My children most they seem 
When they least know me: therefore I decree 
That they shall suffer.' Swift doth young Love flee, 
And we stand wakened, shivering from our dream. 
Then if we study Nature we are wise. 
Thus do the few who live but with the day: 
The scientific animals are they. 
Lady, this is my sonnet to your eyes....Read more of this...

...eep night, 
Where stars like flowers shone, 
A passionate shape came gliding -- 
I saw one thing alone. 

I only saw my young love 
Shining against the dark, 
The whiteness of her raiment, 
The head that bent to hark. 

I only saw my young love, 
Like flowers in the sun -- 
Her hands like waxen petals, 
Where yawning poppies run. 

I only felt there, chrysmal, 
Against my cheek her breath, 
Though all the winds were baying, 
And the sky bright with Death. 

Red sparks whirled...Read more of this...

...the piano's vigor.

All that piano and new paint back there,
Was it some money suddenly come into?
Or some extravagance young love had been to?
Or old love on an impulse not to care--

Not to sink under being man and wife,
But get some color and music out of life?...Read more of this...

...make roses
 stand before thorns.
 Sure
love is cruel
 and selfish
 and totally obtuse—
at least, blinded by the light,
 young love is.
 But we are older,
I to love
 and you to be loved,
 we have,
no matter how,
 by our wills survived
 to keep
the jeweled prize
 always
 at our finger tips.
We will it so
 and so it is
 past all accident....Read more of this...

...le thine unsuspected years
Clear thine aged Fathers brow
From cold Jealousie and Fears.

Pretty surely 'twere to see
By young Love old Time beguil'd:
While our Sportings are as free
As the Nurses with the Child.

Common Beauties stay fifteen;
Such as yours should swifter move;
Whole fair Blossoms are too green
Yet for lust, but not for Love.

Love as much the snowy Lamb
Or the wanton Kid does prize,
As the lusty Bull or Ram,
For his morning Sacrifice.

Now then love me: time ...Read more of this...

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