Poems by Themis

By Day and Night

You did not come by day or night:

My yearning heart's deep agony

Grew tensed into a flame of light

That burnt me inly, silently. ...

Yet day and night, Love, You were there,

Holding me in your close caress;

Only my soul lay unaware

And sorrowed in her loneliness.

Yes, day and night your white love kept

Its shining vigil over me,

 Nourished and warmed me while I slept

Within your world-womb's mystery.

But now that I am born again

Of your pure mystic body's clay,

Your love-seal's on my lonely pain,

My heart in yours all night and day.

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