Poems 1908-1911

Sonnet: "Oh Death will find me long before I tire"

Sonnet: "I said I splendidly loved you; it's not true

Success

Dust

Kindliness

Mummia

The Fish

Thoughts on the Shape of the Human Body

Flight

The Hill

The One Before the Last

The Jolly Company

The Life Beyond

Lines Written in the Belief That the Ancient Roman Festival of the Dead Was Called Ambarvalia

Dead Men's Love

Town and Country

Paralysis

Menelaus and Helen

Lust

Jealousy

Blue Evening

The Charm

Finding

Song

The Voice

Dining-Room Tea

The Goddess in the Wood

A Channel Passage

Victory

Day and Night

Sonnet

"I said I splendidly loved you; it's not true"

I said I splendidly loved you; it's not true.
   Such long swift tides stir not a land-locked sea.
On gods or fools the high risk falls -- on you --
   The clean clear bitter-sweet that's not for me.
Love soars from earth to ecstasies unwist.
   Love is flung Lucifer-like from Heaven to Hell.
But -- there are wanderers in the middle mist,
   Who cry for shadows, clutch, and cannot tell
Whether they love at all, or, loving, whom:
   An old song's lady, a fool in fancy dress,
Or phantoms, or their own face on the gloom;
   For love of Love, or from heart's loneliness.
Pleasure's not theirs, nor pain. They doubt, and sigh,
   And do not love at all. Of these am I.

January 1910.