Voice on the Wind, and Other Poems

<h2><SPAN name="LOVE_DESPISED" id="LOVE_DESPISED"></SPAN>LOVE DESPISED</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Can one resolve and hunt it from one's heart?<br/></span> <span class="i1">This love, this god and fiend, that makes a hell<br/></span> <span class="i1">Of many a life, in ways no tongue can tell,<br/></span> <span class="i0">No mind divine, nor any word impart.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Would not one think the slights that make hearts smart,<br/></span> <span class="i1">The ice of love's disdain, the wint'ry well<br/></span> <span class="i1">Of love's disfavor, love's own fire would quell?<br/></span> <span class="i0">Or school its nature, too, to its own art.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Why will men cringe and cry forever here<br/></span> <span class="i1">For that which, once obtained, may prove a curse?<br/></span> <span class="i1">Why not remember that, however fair,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Decay is wed to Beauty? That each year<br/></span> <span class="i1">Takes somewhat from the riches of her purse,<br/></span> <span class="i1">Until at last her house of pride stands bare?<br/></span></div> </div> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[Pg 68]</SPAN></span></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />