Sometimes I watch you, mark your brooding eyes

Lesbia Harford 1891 (Brighton) – 1927 (Australia)



Sometimes I watch you, mark your brooding eyes,
Your grave brow over-weighted with deep thought,
Your mouth's straight line — details of such a sort
That all aloofness in your aspect lies.
And yet when in the dark down from above
You swoop like a great bird or God himself
To kiss, your lips have curves. What changeling elf
Is that soft mouth of passionate close love?

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCADEED
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 379
Words 69
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8

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