Page:Demeter and other poems (IA demeterotherpoem00tennrich).pdf/116

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.
102
HAPPY
He hiss’d, ‘Let us revenge ourselves, your Ulric woos my wife’—
A lie by which he thought he could subdue me to his will.

xvii.
I knew that you were near me when I let him kiss my brow;
Did he touch me on the lips? I was jealous, anger’d, vain,
And I meant to make you jealous. Are you jealous of me now?
Your pardon, O my love, if I ever gave you pain.

xviii.
You never once accused me, but I wept alone, and sigh’d