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The Poetical Works of Wilfred Scawen Blunt: A Complete Edition
The Poetical Works of Wilfred Scawen Blunt A Complete Edition Author:Wilfrid Scawen Blunt General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1914 Original Publisher: Macmmillan Subjects: Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / General Poetry / American / General Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos o... more »r missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 'Why do I love thee, brother ? We have shared what things in our youth, Battle and siege and triumph, together, always together, in wanderings North and South. But one thing shared binds nearer than all, the kisses of one sweet mouth. He that hath loved the mother shall love the daughter no less, Sister the younger sister. There are tones how sweet to his ear, gestures that plead and press, Echoes fraught with remembered things that cry in the silences. Fly from thy friend in his fortune, his first days of wealth, of fame; Or, if thou needest to meet him, do thou as the children of Noah, walk backwards and guard thee from blame. He who saw found forgiveness none. With thee it were haply the same. Bridegroom, thy pride is unseemly. Thou boastest abroad, with a smile, Thou hast read our humanity's riddle. Nay, wait yet a year with thy bride; she shall lesson thee wiser the while. Then shalt thou blush for thy words to-day, the shame of thy innocent guile. The love of a girl is a taper lit on a windy night. Awhile it lightens our darkness, consoles with its pure sudden flame, and the shadows around it grow white. Anon with a rain-gust of tears it is gone, and we blink more blind for the light. Sage, them art proud of thy knowledge, what mountains and marvels seen ! Thou hast loved how madly, how often ! hast known what wiles of the heart, what ways of maid, wife and quean ! Yet shalt thou still be betrayed by love, befo...« less