Girl To A Soldier On Leave <br />Love! You love me — your eyes <br />Have looked through death at mine. <br />You have tempted a grave too much <br />I let you — I repine. <br /> <br />I love you - Titan lover, <br />My own storm-days Titan. <br />Greater than the son of Zeus, <br />I know whom I would choose. <br /> <br />Titan — my splendid rebel — <br />The old Prometheus <br />Wanes like a ghost before your power — <br />His pangs were joys to yours. <br /> <br />Pallid days arid and wan <br />Tied your soul fast. <br />Babel-cities smoky tops <br />Pressed upon your growth <br /> <br />Weary gyves. What were you <br />But a word in the brains ways, <br />Or the sleep of Circes swine. <br />One gyve holds you yet. <br /> <br />It held you hiddenly on the Somme <br />Tied from my heart at home. <br />O must it loosen now? — I wish <br />You were bound with the old gyves. <br /> <br />Love! you love me — your eyes <br />Have looked through death at mine. <br />You have tempted a grave too much. <br />I let you - I repine.<br /><br />Isaac Rosenberg<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/girl-to-a-soldier-on-leave/
