PATIENCE, little Heart. One day a heavy-breasted, June-hot woman Will enter and shut the door to stay. And when your stifling heart would summon Cool, lonely night, her breasts will keep the night at bay, Leaning in your room like two tiger-lilies, curving Their pale-gold petals back with steady will, Killing the blue dusk with harsh scent, unnerving Your body with their nipple-thrust, until Your thirst for coolness with a husky thirst. And then you will remember, for the first Time with true longing, what I was to you. Like a wild daffodil down-dreaming, And waiting through the blue Chill dusk for you, and gladly gleaming Like a little light at your feet. Patience, little Heart! I shall be sweet In after years, in memory, to you. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON A VIRTUOUS YOUNG GENTLEWOMAN THAT DIED SUDDENLY by WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT THE SPIDER AND THE FLY by MARY HOWITT GARDEN DAYS: 6. AUTUMN FIRES by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON TRAILING ARBUTUS by HENRY ABBEY |