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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ENOUGH, by GENEVIEVE W. MASON
First Line: You would not let me get you meat or drink
Last Line: And then you went.
Subject(s): Regret
First Line: You would not let me get you meat or drink
Last Line: And then you went.
Subject(s): Regret
You would not let me get you meat or drink
To stay your body. All that I could think
To give you cheer seemed idle. Even my hand
Grew cold at contact with the polished strand
Of hair I touched.
Yet at the last you opened wide your coat
And asked me in. There seemed to float
Sad questions in the moisture of your eyes,
Your heart beat steadily; mine jarred surprise, --
And then you went.
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