posted on 2024-04-19, 17:45authored byFirst World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team
Sojourning through a southern realm in youth, I came upon a house by happy chance Where bode a marvellous Beauty. There, romance Flew faerily until I lit on truth --- For lo! the fair Child slumbered. Though, forsooth, She lay not blanketed in drowsy trance, But leapt alert of limb and keen of glance, From sun to shower; from gaiety to ruth; Yet breathed her loveliness asleep in her: For, when I kissed, her eyelids knew no stir. So back I drew tiptoe from that Princess, Because it was too soon, and not my part, To start voluptuous pulses in her heart, And kiss her to the world of Consciousness.
History
Identifier
3372.txt
Creator
Owen, Wilfred (1893-1918)
Date
1914-08
1914-10
Source
The Complete Poems and Fragments of Wilfred Owen edited by Jon Stallworthy first published by Chatto & Windus, 1983 (#11, CPF vol. 1, p. 14, vol. 2, p. 258)
Type
Poem
Rights
The Estate of Wilfred Owen.
The Complete Poems and Fragments of Wilfred Owen edited by Jon Stallworthy first published by Chatto & Windus, 1983. Preliminaries, introductory, editorial matter, manuscripts and fragments omitted.