Memory

I see her yet, that dark-eyed one,

Whose bounding heart God folded up

In His, as shuts when day is done,

Upon the elf the blossom’s cup.

On many an hour like this we met,

And as my lips did fondly greet her,

I blessed her as love’s amulet:

Earth hath no treasure, dearer, sweeter.

The stars that look upon the hill,

And beckon from their homes at night,

Are soft and beautiful, yet still

Not equal to her eyes of light.

They have the liquid glow of earth,

The sweetness of a summer even,

As if some Angel at their birth

Had dipped them in the hues of Heaven.

They may not seem to others sweet,

Nor radiant with the beams above,

When first their soft, sad glances meet

The eyes of those not born for love;

Yet when on me their tender beams

Are turned, beneath love’s wide control,

Each soft, sad orb of beauty seems

To look through mine into my soul.

I see her now that dark-eyed one,

Whose bounding heart God folded up

In His, as shuts when day is done,

Upon the elf the blossom’s cup.

Too late we met, the burning brain,

The aching heart alone can tell,

How filled our souls of death and pain

When came the last, sad word, Farewell!

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• Post coitum omne animal triste est sive gallus et mulier by T. Wignesan. by Poetry In English
• Plaidoirie for a “Prince” of Jaffna by T. Wignesan by Poetry In English
• Petrarchan Sonnet: If no one else breathed in this wide, wide world by T. Wignesan by Poetry In English
• Paris, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s poem: Paris by T. Wignesan. by Poetry In English
• Nevermore, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s sonnet: Nevermore by T. Wignesan by Poetry In English
• Master Valluvan, the long-misunderstood Tamil Mentor by T. Wignesan by Poetry In English
• Limerick: Once a Great Leader with empty pockets by T. Wignesan by Poetry In English
• Criss-Cross Acrostic*: Ai My Eye ! by T. Wignesan by Poetry In English
• Copla Suelta: The One and the Same Dream by T. Wignesan by Poetry In English
• Ballade: In favour of those called Decadents and Symbolists, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s Ballade: En faveur des dénommés Déca by T Wignesan by Poetry In English
• Am I the Assassin or the Undertaker by T. Wignesan by Poetry In English
• Whispers of Immortality by T. S. Eliot by Thomas Stearns Eliot (TS Eliot)
• The Song Of The Jellicles by T. S. Eliot by Thomas Stearns Eliot (TS Eliot)
• The Rum Tum Tugger by T. S. Eliot by Thomas Stearns Eliot (TS Eliot)
• The Old Gumbie Cat by T. S. Eliot by Thomas Stearns Eliot (TS Eliot)
• The Naming Of Cats by T. S. Eliot by Thomas Stearns Eliot (TS Eliot)
• The Hollow Men by T. S. Eliot by Thomas Stearns Eliot (TS Eliot)
• The Boston Evening Transcript by T. S. Eliot by Thomas Stearns Eliot (TS Eliot)
• The Ad-Dressing Of Cats by T. S. Eliot by Thomas Stearns Eliot (TS Eliot)
• Sweeney Erect by T. S. Eliot by Thomas Stearns Eliot (TS Eliot)

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