The Female God

Isaac Rosenberg 1890 (Bristol) – 1918 (Somme)



We curl into your eyes-
They drink our files and have never drained :
In the fierce forest of your hair
Our desires beat blindly for their treasure.

In your eyes' subtle pit,
Far down, glimmer our souls ;
And your hair like massive forest trees
Shadows our pulses, overtired and dumb.

Like a candle lost in an electric glare
Our spirits tread your eyes' infinities :
In the wrecking waves of your tumultuous locks
Do you not hear the moaning of our pulses ?

Queen ! Goddess! Animal!
In sleep do your dreams battle with our souls ?
When your hair is spread like a lover on the pillow
Do not our jealous pulses wake between ?

You have dethroned the ancient God,
You have usurped his Sabbath, his common days;
Yea, every moment is delivered to you,
Our Temple, our Eternal, our one God !

Our souls have passed into your eyes,
Our days into your hair;
And you, our rose-deaf prison, are very pleased with the world,
Your world.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AXBX XCXX BAXX XCXX DXXD ABEE
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 908
Words 166
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

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