1424. Of Joan's Youth by Louise Imogen Guiney. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900

Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

1424. Of Joan’s Youth

By Louise Imogen Guiney


I WOULD unto my fair restore
A simple thing:
The flushing cheek she had before!
Out-velveting
No more, no more,	5
By Severn shore,
The carmine grape, the moth’s auroral wing.

Ah, say how winds in flooding grass
Unmoor the rose;
Or guileful ways the salmon pass	10
To sea, disclose;
For so, alas,
With Love, alas,
With fatal, fatal Love, a girlhood goes.