Poem by Dora Greenwell

A Valentine (One said to me)

     TO C. M.

One said to me, "To-day
 I go where I perchance may meet thy Friend,—
What shall I take from thee?" I answered, "Nay,
 Nought have I left to send,

"For she hath all of mine
 Already! only giving of her store—
A little miser!—through her usury fine
 To draw on mine the more!

"More lit that she send back
 What she hath won of me; but it were vain,—
What once hath been with Her will seek the track,
 The wonted track, again!" 

1. Seeking
2. God's Singer
3. When the Night and Morning Meet
4. Faint Yet Pursuing
5. To Christina Rossetti

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