PATIENCE, little Heart. One day a heavy-breasted, June-hot woman Will enter and shut the door to stay. And when your stifling heart would summon Cool, lonely night, her breasts will keep the night at bay, Leaning in your room like two tiger-lilies, curving Their pale-gold petals back with steady will, Killing the blue dusk with harsh scent, unnerving Your body with their nipple-thrust, until Your thirst for coolness with a husky thirst. And then you will remember, for the first Time with true longing, what I was to you. Like a wild daffodil down-dreaming, And waiting through the blue Chill dusk for you, and gladly gleaming Like a little light at your feet. Patience, little Heart! I shall be sweet In after years, in memory, to you. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JEALOUSY by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE COLUMBUS by EDWARD EVERETT HALE ON A BOY'S FIRST READING OF THE PLAY OF 'KING HENRY THE FIFTH' by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL TO A YOUNG MAN ON THE PLATFORM OF A SUBWAY EXPRESS by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS THE SISTERS by MARY REYNOLDS ALDIS A LITTLE PARABLE by ANNE REEVE ALDRICH |