warmed

Warmed by her hand and shadowed by her hair

As close she leaned and poured her heart through thee,

Wherein I was all but shot for a heartless devil,

But only drabby affairs, warmed-over affairs

Of other days and other men.

And in a high will's strenuous exercise,

Where the warmed spirit finds its fullest strength

And is no more afraid. And in the stroke

Of the oncoming fate.

'Twas you in the court of the palace who warmed

Your hands as you stormed

Leaving the tree unfruited.

The sun that warmed our stooping backs and withered the weed

uprooted—

At fall of evening while it seems that never

Has the sun lighted it or warmed it, while

Cross breezes cut the surface to a file,

By arts and kindliness

Coloured, sweetened, and warmed

For many years has been.

Scorn's malice shall be mute;

Hornets that summer warmed to fly,

Shall at the death of summer die.