Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, VILLA PAULINE, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD


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VILLA PAULINE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But, ah! Before he came
Last Line: "isn't that laughter?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen


But, ah! before he came
You were only a name:
Four little rooms and a cupboard
Without a bone,
And I was alone!
Now with your windows wide
Everything from outside
Of sun and flower and loveliness
Comes in to hide,
To play, to laugh on the stairs,
To catch unawares
Our childish happiness,
And to glide
Through the four little rooms on tip-toe
With lifted finger,
Pretending we shall not know When the shutters are shut
That they still linger
Long, long after.
Lying close in the dark
He says to me: "Hark,
Isn't that laughter?"





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