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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: IX
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
ON HER WAYWARDNESS
This is rank slavery. It better were
To till the thankless earth with sweat of brow,
Following dull oxen 'neath a goad of care
To...
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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: V
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
ON THE POWER OF HER BEAUTY
I am lighthearted now. An hour ago
There was a tempest in my heaven, a flame
Of sullen lightning under a bent brow
And a...
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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: VI
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
IN PRAISE OF HIS FATE
When I hear others speak of this and that
In our fools' lives which might have better gone,
Complaining idly of too niggard...
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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: VII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
ON HER VANITY
What are these things thou lovest? Vanity.
To see men turn their heads when thou dost pass;
To be the signboard and the looking--glass...
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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: VIII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
AS TO HIS CHOICE OF HER
If I had chosen thee, thou shouldst have been
A virgin proud, untamed, immaculate,
Chaste as the morning star, a saint, a...
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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: X
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
ON HER FORGIVENESS OF A WRONG
This is not virtue. To forgive were great
If love were in the issue and not gold.
But wrongs there are 'tis treason to...
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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: XII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
ON READING CERTAIN LETTERS
Reading these lines, this record of lost days
Where I am not, and yet where love has been,
This tale of passions...
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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: XIII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
HE DARES NOT DIE
Four hours by the clock! How strange it is! Four hours
Since love and life, the future and the past,
Died with the shutting of these...
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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: XIV
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
HE HAS FALLEN FROM THE HEIGHT OF HIS LOVE
Love, how ignobly hast thou met thy doom!
Ill--seasoned scaffolding by which, full--fraught
With passionate...
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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: XIX
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
HE PROTESTS, NOTWITHSTANDING, HIS LOVE
To be cast forth from the fair light of heaven
Into the outer darkness and there lie,
Through unrecorded years...
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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: XV
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
COMPLAINING THAT HE HAD FALLEN AMONG THIEVES
Oh, Lytton, I have gambled with my soul,
And, like a spendthrift, pawned my heritage
To pitiless Jews,...
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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: XVI
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
HE ARGUES WITH HIS LIFE
My life, what strange mad garments hast thou on,
Now that I see thee truly and am wise!
Thou wild, lost Proteus, strangling...
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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: XVII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
JOY'S TREACHERY
I had a live joy once and pampered her,
For I had brought her from the ``golden East,''
To lie when nights were cold upon my breast...
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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: XVIII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
HE LAMENTS THAT HIS LOVE IS DEAD
My love is dead, dead and in spite of me,--
Dead while I lived,--while yet my blood was rife
With hope and pleasure...
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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: XX
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
ON FALLING ILL THROUGH GRIEF
Truce to thee, Soul! I have a debt to pay,
Which I acknowledge and without thy pleading.
I like thee little that thou...
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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: XXI
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
HIS BONDAGE TO MANON IS BROKEN
From this day forth I lead another life,
Another...
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To Manon, Comparing Her To A Falcon
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
BRAVE as a falcon and as merciless,
With bright eyes watching still the world, thy prey,
I saw thee pass in thy lone majesty,
Untamed, unmated,...
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To Manon, on his Fortune in loving Her
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
I DID not choose thee, dearest. It was Love
That made the choice, not I. Mine eyes were blind
As a rude shepherd's who to some lone grove
His...
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