Poems

<h2><SPAN name="PARTED" id="PARTED"></SPAN>PARTED.</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><span class="dropcap">M</span>Y spirit holds you, Dear,<br/></span> <span class="i2a">Though worlds away,"&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i0">This to their absent ones<br/></span> <span class="i2">Many can say.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">"Thoughts, fancies, hopes, desires,<br/></span> <span class="i2">All must be yours;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Sweetest my memories still<br/></span> <span class="i2">Of our past hours."<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><i>I</i> can say more than this<br/></span> <span class="i2">Now, lover mine,&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Here can I feel your kiss<br/></span> <span class="i2">Warmer than wine,<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Feel your arms folding me,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Know that quick breath<br/></span> <span class="i0">That aye my soul would stir<br/></span> <span class="i2">Even in death.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">'Tis not a memory, Love,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Thoughts of the past,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Fleeting remembrances<br/></span> <span class="i2">Which may not last,&mdash;<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">But, as I shut my eyes<br/></span> <span class="i2">Know I the sign<br/></span> <span class="i0">That you are here, yourself,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Bodily, mine.&mdash;<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">So, Love, I cannot say<br/></span> <span class="i2">"My spirit flies<br/></span> <span class="i0">Over the widening space,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Under dull skies,<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">To where <i>your</i> spirit is,"&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i2">Though I may know<br/></span> <span class="i0">Seas part us, earth divides,<br/></span> <span class="i2">It is not so<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Here to me, now, for you<br/></span> <span class="i2">Lean on my heart.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Who says that you and I<br/></span> <span class="i2">Ever can part?&mdash;<br/></span></div> </div> <hr /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />