The yellow book: an illustrated quarterly (1.1894)

Stella Maris

So surely do I see your eyes
Out of the empty night arise,
Child, you arise and smile to me
Out of the night, out of the sea,
The Nereid of a moment there,
And is it seaweed in your hair ?

0 lost and wrecked, how long ago,
Out of the drowned past, I know,
You come to call me, come to claim
My share of your delicious shame.
Child, I reraember, and can teil
One night we loved each other well ;
And one night's love, at least or most,
Is not so small a thing to boast.

You were adorable, and I

Adored you to infinity,

That nuptial night too briefly borne

To the oblivion of morn.

Oh, no oblivion ! for I feel

Your lips deliriously steal

Along my neck, and fasten there ;

1 feel the perfume of your hair,

And your soft breast that heaves and di

Desiring my desirous lips,

And that ineffable delight

When souls turn bodies, and unite

In the intolerable, the whole

Rapture of the embodied soul.

That joy was ours, we passed it by ;
You have forgotten me, and I