1914, and Other Poems

<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</SPAN></span></p> <div class="poem"><span class="i0 headstyle">DOUBTS</span></div> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">When she sleeps, her soul, I know,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Goes a wanderer on the air,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Wings where I may never go,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Leaves her lying, still and fair,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Waiting, empty, laid aside,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Like a dress upon a chair....<br/></span> <span class="i0">This I know, and yet I know<br/></span> <span class="i0">Doubts that will not be denied.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">For if the soul be not in place,<br/></span> <span class="i0">What has laid trouble in her face?<br/></span> <span class="i0">And, sits there nothing ware and wise<br/></span> <span class="i0">Behind the curtains of her eyes,<br/></span> <span class="i0">What is it, in the self's eclipse,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Shadows, soft and passingly,<br/></span> <span class="i0">About the corners of her lips,<br/></span> <span class="i0">The smile that is essential she?<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">And if the spirit be not there,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Why is fragrance in the hair?<br/></span></div> </div> <hr class="large" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />