Love

Another Dark Lady

by Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869–1935

From The Man Against the Sky (1916)

Love

Think not, because I wonder where you fled,
That I would lift a pin to see you there;
You may, for me, be prowling anywhere,
So long as you show not your little head:
No dark and evil story of the dead
Would leave you less pernicious or less fair--
Not even Lilith, with her famous hair;
And Lilith was the devil, I have read.
I cannot hate you, for I loved you then.
The woods were golden then. There was a road
Through beeches; and I said their smooth feet showed
Like yours. Truth must have heard me from afar,
For I shall never have to learn again
That yours are cloven as no beech's are.

MLA

Robinson, Edwin Arlington. “Another Dark Lady.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/robinson_ea/72/.

Chicago

Robinson, Edwin Arlington. “Another Dark Lady.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/robinson_ea/72/.

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