Love

Valse Jeune

by Louise Imogen Guiney 1861–1920

From An American Anthology, 1787–1900, ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)

Love

Are there favoring ladies above thee?
Are there dowries and lands? Do they say
Seven others are fair? But I love thee:
Aultre n'auray!

All the sea is a lawn in our country;
All the morrow, our star of delay.
I am King: let me live on thy bounty!
Aultre n'auray!

To the fingers so light and so rosy
That have pinioned my heart, (welladay!)
Be a kiss, be a ring with this posy:
Aultre n'auray!

MLA

Guiney, Louise Imogen. “Valse Jeune.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/guiney/12/.

Chicago

Guiney, Louise Imogen. “Valse Jeune.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/guiney/12/.

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