Collected Poems
Love Song
Love Song
Lay you so cold and still
no wound could make you cry
no kiss could break your sleep
in dark and bulk of earth
our clasp all bone to bone
beneath the ruined wall
or in the dead of night
the wind among the rocks
the uproar of the sea
or came you round the door
stood still for ever there
your look all mine again
O Love, however strange,
wherever I shall be lost
or do you go or stay
or at the cloudless noon
or in the stealth of dawn
O Love, however far,
your breath upon my lips
your blood entreating mine
this time still warm and living
when flesh and fleeting ghost
are salt upon our lips
and savour of forever.