56. Of Joan's Youth by Louise Imogen Guiney. Rittenhouse, Jessie B., ed. 1917. The Little Book of Modern Verse

Jessie B. Rittenhouse, ed. (1869–1948). The Little Book of Modern Verse. 1917.

56. Of Joan’s Youth

By Louise Imogen Guiney


I WOULD unto my fair restore
A simple thing:
The flushing cheek she had before!
Out-velveting
No more, no more,	5
On our sad shore,
The carmine grape, the moth’s auroral wing.

Ah, say how winds in flooding grass
Unmoor the rose;
Or guileful ways the salmon pass	10
To sea, disclose:
For so, alas,
With Love, alas,
With fatal, fatal Love a girlhood goes.