Page:Erotica.djvu/22

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been validated.

Regeneration


Lo! Love leaned o'er thy cradle at thy birth,
And laid his lips on thine a moment's space,
Breathing faint laughter and desire of mirth
Into thy soul, and something not of earth
Now mocks me from thy face.

Fain would I raise an answer in those eyes
My hungry eyes look into, but there lurks
Low laughter in their depths, like radiant skies
That from their azure battlements despise

Earth's earnest toilsome works.
8