Arthur William Symons (Артур Саймонс (Симонс))

At Seventeen

You were a child, and liked me, yesterday.
To-day you are a woman, and perhaps
Those softer eyes betoken the sweet lapse
Of liking into loving: who shall say?
Only I know that there can be for us
No liking more, nor any kisses now,
But they shall wake sweet shame upon your brow
Sweetly, or in a rose calamitous.

Trembling upon the verge of some new dawn
You stand, as if awakened out of sleep,
And it is I who cried to you, 'Arise!'
I who would fain call back the child that's gone,
And what you lost for me would have you keep,
Fearing to meet the woman of your eyes. 

1. Grey Hours: Naples
2. Pastel: Masks and Faces
3. Behind the Scenes: Empire
4. The Andante of Snakes
5. At Glan-y-Wern

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