Love

The Love Sonnets of Proteus, Juliet, XLV: The same continued

by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840–1922

From The Poetical Works (1914), vol. I

Love

Do you remember how I laughed at you
In the Beaulieu woods, and how I made my peace ?
It was your thirtieth birthday, and you threw
Stones like a school-girl at the chestnut trees.
The heavens were light above us and the breeze.
Your Corydon and all the merry crew
Had wandered to a distance, busier bees
Than we, who cared not where the hazels grew.
We were alone at last. I had been teasing
You with the burden of years left behind.
You were too fair to find my wit displeasing,
And I too tender to be less than kind.
Your pebbles struck me. " Wretch," I cried. The word
Entered our hearts that instant like a sword.

MLA

Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen. “The Love Sonnets of Proteus, Juliet, XLV: The same continued.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/blunt/102/.

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Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen. “The Love Sonnets of Proteus, Juliet, XLV: The same continued.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/blunt/102/.

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