English Poetry. Louise Imogen Guiney. Of Joan’s Youth. Луиза Имоджен Гвини.

Louise Imogen Guiney (Луиза Имоджен Гвини)

Of Joan’s Youth

I would unto my fair restore
A simple thing:
The flushing cheek she had before!
Out-velveting
No more, no more,
By Severn shore,
The carmine grape, the moth’s auroral wing.

Ah, say how winds in flooded grass
Unmoor the rose;
Or guileful ways the salmon pass
To sea, disclose;
For so, alas,
With Love, alas,
With fatal, fatal Love a girlhood goes.

Louise Imogen Guiney’s other poems:

1. Undertones at Magdalen
2. On Leaving Winchester
3. On First Entering Westminster Abbey
4. Columba and the Stork
5. On the Cenotaph of the Prince Imperial in Saint George’s Chapel

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