1903 · CLOSE READING
Alice: An Adultery
Alice: An Adultery (1903), PDF p. 37
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Her stature waves, as if a flower
Forgot the evening breeze,
But heard the charioted hour
Sweep from the farther seas,
And kept sweet time within her bower,
And hushed mild melodies.
So grave and delicate and tall—
Shall laughter never sweep
Like a moss-guarded waterfall
Across her ivory sleep ?
A tender laugh most musical ?
A sigh serenely deep ?
She laughs in wordless swift desire
A soft Thalassian tune ;
Her eyelids glimmer with the fire
That animates the moon ;
Her chaste lips flame, as flames aspire
Of poppies in mid-June.
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