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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BENVENUTO'S VALENTINE, by ELINOR WYLIE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Not for the child that wanders home
Last Line: As softly as a silver ring's.
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day
First Line: Not for the child that wanders home
Last Line: As softly as a silver ring's.
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day
Not for the child that wanders home
So wasted by barbaric kings,
So wearied by imperial Rome,
That he will clasp my apron strings.
Not for the ghost that never is
And never will be known by me,
Whose heel is on the precipice
Before its print has left the sea.
And not for darling Harlequin
Spinning in stars of diamond shape,
Nor Hamlet, exquisite and thin
As moonbeams in an inky cape.
Not for the legend latest-born
Of Chivalry and Virgin, whom
Roland has knighted with a horn
And Richard with a sprig of broom.
Not even for the man who climbed
A thousand miles to thrust a torch
Among forgotten fagots, rimed
By winter in an iron porch.
But for the thought, that wrought and planned
Such intricate and crystal things,
My kiss is set upon your hand
As softly as a silver ring's.
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