Witter Bynner. To No One in Particular. Fuess and Stearns, comps. 1922. The Little Book of Society Verse

Fuess and Stearns, comps. The Little Book of Society Verse. 1922.

To No One in Particular

By Witter Bynner


LOCATE your love, you lose your love;
Find her, you look away …
Though mine I never quite discern,
I trace her every day.

She has a thousand presences,	5
As surely seen and heard
As birds that hide behind a leaf
Or leaves that hide a bird.

Single your love, you lose your love,
You cloak her face with clay;	10
Now mine I never quite discern—
And never look away.