SATIETY

Dear you were as is the tree of Being

To the happy dead in heaven’s bow’rs.****

Whence and what, this evil spell that flings me

Forth from love with loveless eyes unseeing?

Fair you were as nymph or queen of vision—

Bosomed like the succubi of dreams.****

All your beauty turns to sad, ironic

Weariness, and sorrowful derision.