Victoria Sackville-west Love Poems

  • 1.
    How do I love you, beech-trees, in the autumn,
    Your stone-grey columns a cathedral nave
    Processional above the earth's brown glory!

    ...
  • 2.
    If I had only loved your flesh
    And careless damned your soul to Hell,
    I might have laughed and loved afresh,
    And loved as lightly and as well,
    ...
  • 3.
    The greater cats with golden eyes
    Stare out between the bars.
    Deserts are there, and the different skies,
    And night with different stars.
    ...
  • 4.
    Yes, they were kind exceedingly; most mild
    Even in indignation, taking by the hand
    One that obeyed them mutely, as a child
    Submissive to a law he does not understand.
    ...
Total 4 Love Poems by Victoria Sackville-west

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