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!"