Ernest Walsh. The Fickle Lover. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

The Fickle Lover

By Ernest Walsh


I HAVE made Life my mistress; built temples
Of song to her in my heart; paraded
Before her enemy, Death. And smiling,
Have kissed Life before Death’s envious eyes;
Proud in my lust, gay in my strength, love-wise.	5

But often in my dreams I’ve wished to touch
The cool sophisticated lips of Death.