Love

That Girl's Clear Eyes

by Edward Thomas 1878–1917

From Collected Poems (1920)

Love

That girl's clear eyes utterly concealed all
Except that there was something to reveal.
And what did mine say in the interval?
No more: no less. They are but as a seal
Not to be broken till after I am dead;
And then vainly. Everyone of us
This morning at our tasks left nothing said,
In spite of many words. We were sealed thus,
Like tombs. Nor until now could I admit
That all I cared for was the pleasure and pain
I tasted in the stony square sunlit,
Or the dark cloisters, or shade of airy plane,
While music blazed and children, line after line,
Marched past, hiding the "SEVENTEEN THIRTY-NINE."

MLA

Thomas, Edward. “That Girl's Clear Eyes.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/thomas_e/117/.

Chicago

Thomas, Edward. “That Girl's Clear Eyes.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/thomas_e/117/.

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