A Girl

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Author
Michael Field
Year
1898
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A Girl,


     Her soul a deep-wave pearl


Dim, lucent of all lovely mysteries;


     A face flowered for heart's ease,


     A brow's grace soft as seas


     Seen through faint forest-trees:


     A mouth, the lips apart,


Like aspen-leaflets trembling in the breeze


     From her tempestuous heart.


     Such: and our souls so knit,


     I leave a page half-writ —


           The work begun


Will be to heaven's conception done,


           If she come to it.

Publisher
Thomas Bird Mosher