My Own, by Gustave Kahn

My Own

MY OWN is beautiful as floated perfume is--
The other day she seemed an opening flower--
My own is beautiful as Angel's flesh in springtime--
The other evening all the sun was on my heart--   Save from my own's lips there is no caress--
The spirit's parks are decked below her lips--
In clamour she is the Temple and in the crowd the verge--
The welcoming of my own, the happy season.   The other morning in her sadness was the night of winter--
the voice of my own, the faë ry of sounds--
For all my life she is an opening flower--
my own is beautiful as resurrection is.

poems.one - Gustave Kahn

Gustave Kahn