Gesture by Winifred Welles. William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. 1920. Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. (1878–1962). Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920. 1920.

Gesture

Winifred Welles


MY arms were always quiet,
Close and never freed,
I was furled like a banner,
Enfolded like a seed.

I thought, when Love shall strike me,	5
Each arm will start and spring,
Unloosen like a petal,
And open like a wing.

Oh Love—my arms are lifted,
But not to sway and toss,	10
They strain out wide and wounded
Like arms upon a cross. The North American Review