1914, and Other Poems

<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</SPAN></span></p> <div class="poem"><span class="i0 headstyle">A MEMORY (<i>From a sonnet-sequence</i>)</span></div> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Somewhile before the dawn I rose, and stept<br/></span> <span class="i1">Softly along the dim way to your room,<br/></span> <span class="i1">And found you sleeping in the quiet gloom,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And holiness about you as you slept.<br/></span> <span class="i0">I knelt there; till your waking fingers crept<br/></span> <span class="i1">About my head, and held it. I had rest<br/></span> <span class="i1">Unhoped this side of Heaven, beneath your breast.<br/></span> <span class="i0">I knelt a long time, still; nor even wept.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">It was great wrong you did me; and for gain<br/></span> <span class="i0">Of that poor moment's kindliness, and ease,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And sleepy mother-comfort!<br/></span> <span class="i11">Child, you know<br/></span> <span class="i0">How easily love leaps out to dreams like these,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Who has seen them true. And love that's wakened so<br/></span> <span class="i0">Takes all too long to lay asleep again.<br/></span></div> </div> <div class="poem"><span class="i0 headstyle4"><span class="smcap">Waikiki</span>, <i>October</i> 1913</span></div> <hr class="large" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />