Poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Sonnets of Sorrow. 5. You understood the woman side of me

You understood the woman side of me;
My vanities you met with smiling lip;
The fabrics that I wore you first see,
And pass upon them with wise censorship,
You loved things not too sombre or too bright,
But tender toned with colours softly blent;
Yet, when I leaned above you, draped like night
You were unmindful and indifferent.

One sigh of mine, one tear upon my face
Wrenched your dear heart with sympathetic grief.
Yet, when I held you in that last embrace,
Torn with a torture which found no relief,
You lay and smiled with such a knowing air
Of mighty peace as if you did not care.

1. Be Not Attached
2. Behold the Earth
3. The Birth of the Orchid
4. The Black Charger
5. In England

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