Love Sonnet XVII poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
Beloved, lest I should remember, I Must swift forget the wonder of last night. Hot memory would but blacken out my sight And dull my senses till they seemed to die. How could I live, remembering that sigh… That breath…that sob…that all sublime delight? Eternal joy is death, I think, and might Not such sweet […]
Love Sonnet XV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
Love, you have brought to me my perfect soul, More sweet than earthly things, more precious rare, Hiding its fragrance in my loosened hair And folding up my body like a scroll. O, lie with me all night, and let the roll Of Rapture’s waves wash over us, as, bare Of anything save Love, we […]
Love Sonnet XLIX poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
In me there is a vast and lonely place, Where none, not even you, have walked in sight. A wide, still vale of solitude and light, Where Silence echoes into ebbing space. And there I creep at times and hide my face, While in myself I fathom wrong and right, And all the timeless ages […]
Love Sonnet XLIV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
Love is the sepulchre of all my sin, If it be sin to let the body sink In that slow dying the sick senses drink That ne’er have felt true Love’s delight rush in. Hot Vice may sear the bloom of Beauty’s skin Polluting Virtue with a painted wink, But Love smiles lightly at such […]
Love Sonnet XLII poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
My true mind makes as many loves of you As my full heart contentedly can hold. And when the one grows dull, the other cold, Yet comes another swifter in to woo. I could not rue such changing retinue Nor chastise circumstance that keeps me bold. I make you young or middle-aged or old Just […]
Love Sonnet X poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
And then came Science with her torch red-lit And cosmic marvels round her glowing head— The primal cell, the worm, the quadruped— Striving to make each to the other fit. Tongue-trumpeting her own unchallenged wit, She offered me the woof of Wisdom’s thread, And Truth and Purity that hourly tread The paths where sages in […]
Love Sonnet LX poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
My mind and heart both love you utterly. And so each thought of mine is doubly yours, And all my will about your body pours Scents of my blood and fires that flow from me. Who has created me, so young, so free, Eager to-day to close convention’s doors, To-morrow to return and sweep the […]
Love Sonnet LVIII poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
Do not surcharge our souls with that vile blame To which our bodies are subjected here; Nor heap them with the horror of dull fear Base-borrowed from a life of torpid shame. But let them linger like a lovely flame Above the clay to which they must cohere, Lighting the earthly to the heavenly sphere […]
Girl-Gladness poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
It’s holiday time on the hollyhock hills, And I wish you would come with me laddie-love, now, The butterfly-bells, from the Folly-fool rills, Will ring if you listen, and drop on your brow. So, dear come along, I’ve a kiss and a song, And I know where the fairies are forging a gong To ring […]
Fortune poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
Dame Fortune’s jade with a fanciful horn Of silver ambitions she warns of the flame; With pearls for the princes and tears night and morn For poor little poets who fluttered for fame, Who smile when she sings as she dances along; “Come; woo me with courage and delicate song.” I followed her once, but […]
Elegy On An Australian Schoolboy poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
I would not curse your England, wise as slow, Just as unjust in deed. I can believe that from her heart may flow The truest human creed. She sounded one high call of Liberty That despots heard with dread; I know not what high purpose to be free Crowns yet her starry head. Do I […]
Books poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
Oh! Bury me in books when I am dead, Fair quarto leaves of ivory and gold, And silk octavos, bound in brown and red, That tales of love and chivalry unfold. Heap me in volumes of fine vellum wrought, Creamed with the close content of silent speech; Wrap me in sapphire tapestries of thought From […]
Sonnet Of Motherhood XLV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems | Poetry Monster
Sonnet Of Motherhood XLV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems | Poetry Monster Dearest, your mother feels (though dead) this birth— Laughs at the fire within your shining eyes— Your eyes, yet mine, wherein such glory lies Never before beheld upon the earth. She scents the fragrance of the lily-mirth Lilting this body that […]
Love Sonnet XXV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems | Poetry Monster
aboutlove Love Sonnet XXV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems | Poetry Monster I know no miracle so manifest As that you wrought upon me yesterday, Filling with love my chalice of pure clay From fragrant fountains of your own dear breast. Beaten and sad, with aching eyes I pressed Close unto you, and, […]
Love Sonnet LIV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems | Poetry Monster
Love Sonnet LIV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems | Poetry Monster What have you more than I, who crave you so? Have I not hands and feet and thoughts to tell? All my sweet senses and fine dreams that swell Rich with contentments that the star-winds blow? Yet do I need you everywhere […]