Love

The Love Sonnets of Proteus, Vita Nova, LXXXVIII: The same continued

by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840–1922

From The Poetical Works (1914), vol. I

Love

There were two with thee in thine agony,
I and another. In that hour supreme
We stood beside thy cross and gazed at thee,
Waiting till death should wake thee from thy dream.
Thy hands held both our hands and clung to them
And drew them to each other. We could see
Thy dumb lips open as to either name
And thy eyes turn to our eyes wistfully.
O eloquent eyes ! Ye were not closed in vain.
Still from the grave ye speak, " Behold a son,
Behold a mother." From that rite of pain
We two went home together bone of bone
And flesh of flesh, distinguished among men,
Thy witnesses till death shall come again.

MLA

Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen. “The Love Sonnets of Proteus, Vita Nova, LXXXVIII: The same continued.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/blunt/144/.

Chicago

Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen. “The Love Sonnets of Proteus, Vita Nova, LXXXVIII: The same continued.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/blunt/144/.

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