A Roadside Harp: A Book of Verses

by Louise Imogen Guiney

With not a plume, gay in the jousts before,

Left for the Archer! so, in evening’s eye,

So stilled, so lifted, let your lover die,

Set in the upper calm no voices rouse,

Stript, meek, withdrawn, against the heavenly door.

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M. A. 1822–1888

GOOD oars, for Arnold’s sake

By Laleham lightly bound,