Once I Saw Thee Idly Rocking

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Title:     Once I Saw Thee Idly Rocking
Author: Stephen Crane [More Titles by Crane]

Once I saw thee idly rocking
--Idly rocking--
And chattering girlishly to other girls,
Bell-voiced, happy,
Careless with the stout heart of unscarred womanhood,
And life to thee was all light melody.
I thought of the great storms of love as I knew it,
Torn, miserable, and ashamed of my open sorrow,
I thought of the thunders that lived in my head,
And I wish to be an ogre,
And hale and haul my beloved to a castle,
And make her mourn with my mourning.

[The end]
Stephen Crane's poem: Once I Saw Thee Idly Rocking

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