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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A WOMAN'S APOLOGY, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poet's Biography First Line: If always I had slept within your arms Last Line: Deface a sanctuary, tombs, relics, images. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Separation; Isolation | |||
IF always I had slept within your arms More calmly had I slept. The dark-winged Hours with hush of whispering flight Had gently passed above That sleep, till one all bright Had stooped from Heaven's gate and shone on me like Love. If always I had wept within your arms More often had I wept, Consoled as Earth is comforted with rain. Hearts may have need of tears, And tears quench in the brain The irreparable dark fire that consumes and sears. If always I had smiled within your arms More softly had I smiled. For we who crowd at Life's perpetual Show Thus eager for the jest, Are cowards, afraid to know How Fate and our own souls stand in the obscure contest. But since I never might within your arms Live healed and reconciled, Pardon I ask for this too little change, Familiar looks, lest these With superscription strange Deface a sanctuary, tombs, relics, images. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE EVENING OF THE MIND by DONALD JUSTICE CHRISTMAS AWAY FROM HOME by JANE KENYON THE PROBLEM by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES WHEN A WOMAN LOVES A MAN by DAVID LEHMAN THIS UNMENTIONABLE FEELING by DAVID LEHMAN |
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