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Why Should I Care?
Why Should I Care? Why should I care, (are cares so few?), If you withdraw your favours from my reach After so many years of turbulence?. Why should I care, (pained by […]
Imprisoned
Imprisoned Pure phœnix of true love, endungeoned in or hearts; Locked in by jealous bolts; by iron hatreds barred; Chained by mistrust close to the coals of envy’s fire […]
Engravings
Engravings Queen Mary Tudor once declared her heart Would be found graved with CALAIS when she died Because, through unwise policies of State, She lost that Channel guard-post to the French. When my time comes to die, perhaps that same Part will be found […]
Implosion
Implosion A nuclear reactor, when its heat Exceeds a prescribed limit, may implode With cataclysmic force, destroying all In its vicinity. To help prevent Disaster it is carefully controlled By stringent safeguards that can be deployed To dissipate excessive energy Whenever need […]
Exile
Exile If break you must, then silent do the deed My painful heart; we cannot let her hear The dissolution of your muscled force!. Unheard within this exiled body, tear Yourself apart with noiseless wrack and bleed To death with no sound of remorse!. […]
Chivalrous?
Chivalrous? I love. That is enough For all my needs; Though what my lover wants […]
Incantation
Incantation If I were Mercury, on healing wing, To touch with white caduceus your hurt; If I were famed Asklepios, to bring Skill-blended draughts to ease your sickened heart; If I were […]
To Touch Your Heart
To Touch your Heart? Since love itself is enough, What must I do to touch your heart?. To you it makes no difference Whether, (like Chauvin), I strut proud — Flaunting my independent mind — Or scrape in Helot servitude Anticipating each your whim. If […]
After the Break
After the Break Since human life is progress preordained By God — who gave that life to each of us — Let us not, in the embers of our love, Allow self-pity to embitter us. You […]
To A.E.M
To A.E.M Had I the words, my darling, I would tell In whispered phrases sweet of my great love. Of how your presence<charms the very air Which close-enwraps us in its gentleness; Of how all things assume a pleasantness Unnoticed ’til you come, my dearest one. But since […]