Living
With the Orient in her eyes
From A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895, ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman (1895)
Living
With the Orient in her eyes,
Life my mistress lured me on.
"Knowledge," said that look of hers,
"Shall be yours when all is done."
Like a pomegranate in halves,
"Drink me," said that mouth of hers,
And I drank who now am here
Where my dust with dust confers.
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Carman, Bliss. “With the Orient in her eyes.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/carman/317/.
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Carman, Bliss. “With the Orient in her eyes.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/carman/317/.
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