English Poetry. Dora Sigerson Shorter. Love. Дора Сигерсон Шортер.

Dora Sigerson Shorter (Дора Сигерсон Шортер)

Love

Deep in the moving depths
   Of yellow wine,
I swore I’d drown your face,
   O love of mine;
All clad in yellow hue,
   So fair to see,
You crouched within my cup
   And laughed at me.

Twice o’er a learned page
   I turned and tossed,
For would I not forget
   The love I lost.
All stern and robed in gloom,
   You read it too,
I could not see the words—
   Saw only you.

Within the hungry chase
   I thought to kill
You, love, who haunted thus
   Without my will,
But in the gentle gaze
   Of fawn and deer,
Your eyes disarmed my hand,
   And shook my spear.

Beneath a maid’s dark lash
   I swore you’d drown,
Sink in the laughing blue—
   Give in, go down:
But no! you bathèd there
   Right joyously,
And from her liquid eyes
   You laughed at me.

Dora Sigerson Shorter’s other poems:

1. The Rape of the Baron’s Wine
2. When You Are on the Sea
3. My Neighbour’s Garden
4. The Fairy Changeling
5. Unknown Ideal

Poems of other poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

Samuel Coleridge (Сэмюэл Кольридж) Love (“All thoughts, all passions, all delights”) 1799

Elizabeth Barrett-Browning (Элизабет Барретт-Браунинг) Love (“We cannot live, except thus mutually”)

Rupert Brooke (Руперт Брук) Love (“Love is a breach in the walls, a broken gate”)

Charles Calverley (Чарльз Калверли) Love (“Canst thou love me, lady?”)

Thomas Gent (Томас Гент) Love (“Love!—what is love? a mere machine, a spring”)

Nicholas Breton (Николас Бретон) Love (“Foolish love is only folly”)

Alexander Smith (Александр Смит) Love (“THE fierce exulting worlds, the motes in rays”)

Henry Van Dyke (Генри Ван Дайк) Love (“Let me but love my love without disguise”)

Jones Very (Джонс Вери) Love (“I asked of Time to tell me where was Love”)

Ella Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Love (“The longer I live and the more I see”)

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