Harriet Monroe, ed. (18601936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 191222. | | There Was a Time | By Oscar Williams |
| From Golden Darkness THERE was a time when I was shy and lonely, | |
And stood in strange bewilderment apart; | |
And no one spoke to me, and silence only | |
Would fold my songs into her tender heart. | |
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There was a time when only windy darkness | 5 |
Would fan my dreams with glamoured loveliness. | |
But you have come, and nights are filled with starkness; | |
And I am lonely for my loneliness. | |
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Oh, you have comeand silence is a stranger, | |
And darkness keeps aloof from my distress; | 10 |
And youoh, you are all too fraught with danger, | |
And I am lonely for my loneliness. | | | |
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