Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LIGHT LOVER, by ALINE MURRAY KILMER


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First Line: Why don't you go back to the sea, my dear?
Last Line: Oh, I think you had better go back to the sea!
Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce, Mrs.
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Masefield, John (1878-1967); Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Feminism


Why don't you go back to the sea, my dear?
I am not one who would hold you;
The sea is the woman you really love,
So let hers be the arms that fold you.
Your bright blue eyes are a sailor's eyes,
Your hungry heart is a sailor's too.
And I know each port that you pass through
Will give you one lass both bonny and wise
Who has learned light love from a sailor's eyes.
If you ever go back to the sea, my dear,
I shall miss you -- yes, can you doubt it?
But women have lived through worse than that,
So why should we worry about it?
Take your restless heart to the restless sea,
Your light, light love to a lighter lass,
Who will smile when you come and smile when you pass.
Here you can only trouble me.
Oh, I think you had better go back to the sea!




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