J. C. Squire, ed. A Book of Womens Verse. 1921. | | Forbidden Lave | By Lady Currie (Violet Fane) (18431905) |
| OH, love! thou that shelterest some | |
Neath thy wings, so white and warm, | |
Wherefore on a bat-like wing | |
All disguisèd didst thou come | |
In so terrible a form? | 5 |
As a dark forbidden thing, | |
As a demon of the air | |
As a sorrow and a sin, | |
Wherefore camst thou thus to me, | |
As a tempter and a snare? | 10 |
When the heart that beats within | |
This, my bosom, warmd to thee, | |
Was it from a love of sinning, | |
From a fatal love of wrong, | |
From a wish to shun the light? | 15 |
Nay! I swear at the beginning | |
Hadst thou sung an angels song, | |
Had this wrong thing been the right, | |
Thou hadst seemd as worth the winning, | |
And with will as firm and strong | 20 |
I had lovd with all my might. | | | |
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