1903 · CLOSE READING
Alice: An Adultery
Alice: An Adultery (1903), PDF p. 57
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O fearful firstling dove !
My dawn and spring of love,
Love’s light and lure !
Look (as I bend above)
Through bright lids filled thereof
Perfect and pure,
Thy bloom of maidenhood.
I could not : if I could,
I would not : being good,
Also endure !
Cruel, to tear or mar
The chaliced nenuphar ;
Cruel to press
The rosebud ; cruel to scar
Or stain the flower-star
With mad caress.
But crueller to destroy
The leaping life and joy
Born in a careless boy
From lone distress.
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