And so it ends,
We who were lovers may be friends.
I have some weeks in which to steel
My heart and teach myself to feel
Only a sober tenderness
Where once was passion's loveliness.
I had not thought that there would come
Your touch to make our music dumb,
Your meeting touch upon the string
That still was vibrant, still could sing
When I impatiently might wait
Or parted from you at the gate.
You took me weak and unprepared.
I had not thought that you who shared
My days, my nights, my heart, my life,
Would slash me with a naked knife
And gently tell me not to bleed
But to accept your crazy creed.
You speak of God, but you have cut
The one last thread, as you have shut
The one last door that open stood
To show me still the way to God.
If this be God, this pain, this evil,
I'd sooner change and try the Devil.
Darling, I thought of nothing mean;
I thought of killing straight and clean.
You're safe; that's gone, that wild caprice,
But tell me once before I cease,
Which does your Church esteem the kinder role,
To kill the body or destroy the soul?
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This is a really interesting poem about the end of a relationship
It seemed very deep and to have a sombre sadness to it, I especially liked the ending
Pozo
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The words of Full Moon are:
She was wearing the coral taffeta trousers
Someone had brought her from Ispahan,
And the little gold coat with pomegranate blossoms,
And the coral-hafted feather fan;
But she ran down a Kentish lane in the moonlight,
And skipped in the pool of the moon as she ran.
She cared not a rap for all the big planets,
For Betelgeuse or Aldebaran,
And all the big planets cared nothing for her,
That small impertinent charlatan;
But she climbed on a Kentish stile in the moonlight,
And laughed at the sky through the sticks of her fan. -
The poem Full Moon by Vita Sackville-West begins "She was wearing the coral taffeta trousers...." It appeared in the following anthologies: The Distaff Muse publ. Hollis and Carter 1949; Modern British Poetry ed. Untermeyer publ. Harcourt Brace and Co 4th ed. 1936 and 6th ed. 1950; Poets of our time ed Gillett publ Thomas Nelson and Sons 1932 and 1939; The Standard Book of British and American Verse comp Braddy publ Garden City Publishing Co 1932; Shorter Modern Poems 1900-1931, comp Morton publ Harper and Brothers 1932; Twentieth Century Verse, ed Dilworth publ Clarke, Irwin and Co 1945. Presumably also in a complete collected edition of VSW if there is one. Information is from Grangers Index to Poetry, Columbia University Press, ed Dixon 1953 edition.
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