Maurice Henry Hewlett Shame Poems

• 1. Dream Anguish
  My thought of thee is tortured in my sleep--
  Sometimes thou art near beside me, but a cloud
  Doth grudge me thy pale face, and rise to creep
  Slowly about thee, to lap thee in a shroud;
  ...
• 2. Duty
  Oh, I am weak to serve thee as I ought;
  My shroud of flesh obscures thy deity,
  So thy sweet Spirit that should embolden me
  To shake my wings out wide, serves me for nought,
  ...
• 3. The Saints' Maying
  Since green earth is awake
  Let us now pastime take,
  Not serving wantonness
  Too well, nor niggardness,
  ...
• 4. Kin Confessed
  Long loving, all our love was husbanded
  Until one morning on the brown hillside,
  One misty Autumn morn when Sun did hide
  His radiance, yet was felt. No words we said,
  ...
• 5. Lai Of Gobertz[1]
  Of courteous Limozin wight,
  Gobertz, I will indite:
  From Poicebot had he his right
  Of gentlehood;
  ...
• 6. The Chamber Idyll
  The blue night falleth, the moon
  Is over the hill; make fast,
  Fasten the latch, I am tired: come soon,
  Come! I would sleep at last
  ...
• 7. The Village Wife's Lament
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