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Poem by Eleanor Farjeon


Sonnets. 14. Now I have love again and life again


Now I have love again and life again
By either hand, and cannot join their palms;
For me they never will be one but twain,
And I from each accept the barest alms.
Life’s dole I scatter publicly, love’s lies
Unspent, unspent for ever in my heart--
Poor heart, poor beggar of bleak charities
From stores wherein it owns no proper part.

Each knows me for his almsman in distress
And brings his mercies to my famished door,
But love asks not who doth my body dress,
Nor life who stoops to clothe a heart so poor.
Why do ye always come in singleness?
Meet in me once, and I will want no more.



Eleanor Farjeon


Eleanor Farjeon's other poems:
  1. Sonnets. 9. Love Needs not Two the Render It Complete
  2. Sonnets. 1. Man Cannot Be a Sophist to His Heart
  3. Sonnets. 16. O lovely life, how you have worn me out
  4. Sonnets. 12. I hear love answer: Since within the mesh
  5. Sonnets. 10. What is this anguish then that always stands


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