Little Lion Man | The Story of Cary / Part III
tw: rape, infidelity, pregnancy, stepcest
Exactly at seven-thirty that night, the door chimes sounded, punched by an impatient finger, forcing Caren to hurry lest the man waken Cary who hadn't liked being put to bed at such an early hour.
If she had taken pains to look her best, so had Harry. He strode in as if he already owned the place and her. He left behind a drift of shaving lotion with a piney forest scent, and every hair on his head was carefully in place, making her wonder if he had a thinning spot. She figured she’d find out for herself sooner or later.
She took his coat and hung it in the hall closet, then sashayed over to the bar where she busied herself as he sat down before the log fire she had burning nothing had been overlooked; She even had soft music playing.
By this time Caren knew enough about men and the ways of pleasing them best. There wasn't a man alive who wasn't charmed by a lovely woman bustling about, eager to wait on him, pamper and wine and dine him, if you asked her.
“Name your weakness, Harry."
"Scotch."
"On the rocks?"
"Neat."
He watched her every movement, which was deliberately graceful and deft. Then, turning her back she mixed a fruity drink for myself, lacing it lightly with vodka. And with her two little stemmed goblets on a silver tray, Caren seductively ambled his way, leaning to give him an enticing view of her braless bosom. She sat across from him and swung one leg over the other to allow the long slit of her rose-colored dress to open and expose one leg from silver sandal midway to the hip. He couldn't take his eyes off it.
"Sorry about the glasses,” Caren said smoothly, well pleased with his expression, "I don't have room in this cottage to unpack everything I own. Most of my crystal is in storage and I have here only wine glasses and water goblets."
"Scotch is scotch no matter how it's served. And what in the world is that thing you're sipping?" By this time he'd shifted his gaze to the low V of her gown.
"Well, you take orange juice freshly squeezed, a dab of lemon juice a dash of vodka, bit of coconut oil, and drop in a cherry to dive after. I call it A Maiden's Delight."
After a few minutes of conversation, they drifted to the dining table, not so far from the fireplace, to eat by candlelight. Every so often he'd drop his fork, or spoon, or she would, and both of them would go for it, then laugh to see who was fastest. Caren was, every time. He was much too distracted to spot a missing fork or spoon when a neckline opened up so obligingly.
"This is delicious chicken," he said after demolishing five hours of hard labor in about ten minutes. "Usually I don't like chicken-where'd you learn to prepare this dish?"
Caren told him the truth, “A Russian dancer taught me, she was on tour over here, and we liked each other. She and her husband stayed with Leeland and me, and we'd cook together whenever we weren't dancing or shopping or touring. It took four chickens to feed four people. Now you know the nasty truth about dancers; when it comes to eating we are not in the least dainty. That is, after a performance. Before we go on we have to eat very lightly."
He smiled and leaned across the small drop-leaf table. Candlelight was in his eyes, sparkling them devilishly.
"Caren, tell me honestly why you came to live in this hick town and why you've got your heart set on me for a lover."
"You flatter yourself," Caren said in her most aloof manner, thinking she was very successful in appearing cool on the outside while inside she was a web of conflicting emotions. It was almost as if she had stage fright and was in the wings waiting to go on. And this was the most important performance of her life. Then almost magically she felt she was on stage. She didn't have to think of how to act or what to say to charm him and make him forever hers. The script had been written a long time ago when she was hidden and first found out her mother had married him.
"You're not being honest with yourself," Harry said softly, "You know better than anyone where that missing piece is, or I wouldn't be here."
His voice was so low and seductive as he stood and took her into his arms to dance.
Caren put her head on his shoulder as they went on dancing, "You're wrong, Harry, I don't know why you're here. I don't know how to fill my days. When I'm teaching class and when I'm with my son, then I'm alive-but when he's in bed and I'm alone, I don't know what to do with myself. I know Cary needs a father, and when I think of his father I realize I've always managed to do the wrong thing. I've read my reviews that rave about the potential I had... but in my personal life I've made only mistakes, so what I accomplished professionally doesn't matter at all."
Caren stopped moving her feet and sniffled, then tried to hide her face, but he tilted it upward, then dried my tears and held his handkerchief so she could blow her nose. Then came the silence. The long, long silence. Their eyes met and clung and her heart started a faster thumping.
"Your problems are all so simple, Caren," he began, "all you need is someone like me, who needs someone like you. If Cary needs a father, then I need a son. See how simply all complicated matters are solved?"
Too simply, she thought, when he had a wife and she was discerning and cynical enough to know he couldn't possibly care for her enough.
“You have a wife you love," Caren said bitterly.
Caren shoved him away. She didn't want to get him too easily, but only after long and difficult struggles against her mother, and she wasn't here to know.
"Men are liars too," he said flatly, with some of the zest gone from his eyes. "I have a wife and occasionally we sleep together, but the fire has gone out. I don't know her. I don't think anyone knows her. She's a bundle of secrets, wound up tight, and she won't let me inside. It's gone on so long I don't care to be let in now. She can keep her secrets and her tears, and eat her way out of her anxieties and whatever it is that makes her wake up in the night and go and look in that damned blue album! Now she's overweight and she's written she's just had plastic surgery, a face lift, and I won't know her when she comes back. As if I ever really knew her!"
Caren panicked inside, he had to care! How could she break up a marriage that was already coming apart? She needed to feel she'd accomplished this against overwhelming odds!
“Go home!" Caren said, pushing at him. "Get out of my house! I don't know you well enough to even listen to your problems, and I don't believe you. I don't trust you!"
He laughed, mocking her, aroused by her puny efforts to push him away. His libido was fired and it flamed in his eyes as he grabbed her upper arms and drew her hard against him.
“Now you come off it! Look at the way you're dressed. You had me come here for a reason. So here I am, ready to be seduced. You seduced me the first time I saw you, and for the life of me it seems I've known you much longer than I actually have. Nobody plays games with me, then calls it a draw. You win or I win, but if we go to bed together we might wake up in the morning and find out we've both won."
Red lights flashed, Stop! Resist! Fight! Caren did none of those things. Caren beat on his chest with ineffectual small fists as he laughed and picked her up and threw her over his shoulder.
With one hand he gripped both of her legs to keep them from kicking, and with the other he turned out the lamps. In the dark, with her still beating on his back, he carried her into her bedroom and threw her down on the comforter. She scrambled to get up, but he came at her fast!
There wasn't a chance to use the knee she had ready. He sensed her dancer's ability could defeat him so he lunged, caught her about the waist so they both tumbled to the floor! Caren opened her mouth to scream, but he clamped his hand upon her open lips, then pinioned her arms with his iron strength and sat on the legs that tried to kick herself free.
“Caren, my lovely seductress, you went to such a lot of trouble. You seduced me long ago, ballerina. Until the week before Christmas you are mine, and then my wife will be home-and I won't need you."
His hand eased away from her lips and she thought she would scream, but instead she bit out, “At least I didn't have to buy you with my father's millions!"
That did it. He crushed his lips brutally hard down on hers before she realized what was happening. This wasn't the way she wanted it! Caren wanted to tempt him, set him on fire, make him chase her, and give in only after a long and arduous pursuit that her mother could watch and suffer through, knowing she could do nothing or she'd talk. And yet he was taking her heartlessly, more ruthless than Leeland at his worst!
Savagely he bore down on her. He squirmed and writhed to grind in, even as his hands ripped and tore off her clinging rose dress. All she had on then was pantyhose, and soon he had those pulled down so her silver slippers came off and stayed inside of them.
With his lips still crushed brutally hard on hers, he carried her resisting hand to his zipper and squeezed until her knuckles cracked. It was either tug it down or have her fingers broken! How he managed to wiggle out of his clothes, even as he held her naked beneath him, she’d never know.
When he was naked, but for his socks, she kept on wiggling, writhing, squirming, butting and trying to scratch or bite while he kissed, fondled and explored. Caren had her chance to scream several times—but she too was breathing fast and hard, and jerking upward to force him off. But he took this as a welcoming arch of invitation. He entered, and had his too quick satisfaction, then pulled out before she had any.
"Get out of here." Caren screamed. “I'm calling the police! I'll have you thrown in jail, charged with assault and rape!"
He laughed scornfully, chucked her under the chin playfully, then stood up to pull on his clothes.
“Oh," he said, mocking her with an imitation of her own voice, “I am so frightened.” Then his voice was deeply earnest.“You aren't happy, are you? It didn't work out the way you planned it, but don't you worry, tomorrow night I'll be back, and maybe then you can please me enough, so I'll feel like taking the time to please you."
"I've got a gun!" She declared thought she didn't, “And if you dare set foot in this house again you're a dead man! Not that you are a man. You are more brute than human!"
“My wife often says the same thing," he said casually, zipping up his trousers shamelessly, without the decency to even turn his back. “But she likes it just the same, just as you did. Beef Wellington, you can have that tomorrow night, plus a tossed salad and a chocolate mousse for dessert. If you make me fat, we can burn off the calories in the most pleasant way possible,and I don't mean jogging."
He grinned, saluted her, put one foot behind the other to turn in a smartly, military fashion, then paused at the doorway as Caren sat up and clutched the remnants of her gown to her breasts.
“Same time tomorrow night, and I'll stay the night-that is, if you treat me right."
He left, and slammed the front door behind him.
Caren began to cry, not from pity for herself. It was frustration so huge she could have torn him limb from limb!
She’d lace the beef wellington with arsenic.
A small timid sound came from outside her door then.
“Mommy... I'm scared. Are you cryin', Mommy?" Came Cary’s soft voice.
Hastily she pulled on a robe and called him in, then held him close in her arms. “Darling, darling, Mommy is all right. You had a bad dream. Mommy isn't crying... see?"
Cary peered into her face worriedly, he heard too much, not that he understood it all. Cowering in his bed scared, before he finally got up and got to his mother’s door.
Caren brushed away the tears, for she'd get even.
Three dozen red roses arrived while Cary and she were eating breakfast, he long-stemmed variety from the florist.
A small white card read: I'm sending you a big bouquet of roses, One for every night you'll have my heart.
No name. And what the devil was she supposed to do with three dozen roses in a matchbox house? She couldn't send them to a children's ward; the hospital was miles and miles away.
Cary decided what to do with them, "Oh, Mommy, how pretty! Uncle William's roses!"
For Cary she kept the roses instead of throwing them out, and in many vases she scattered them throughout the house.
He was delighted, and when she took him with her to dancing school he told all the students, roses were all over his home-even in the bathroom.
After lunch Caren drove Cary to the nursery school he so loved. It was a Montessori school that was inspiring him to want to learn by appealing to his senses.
Already he could print his name, and he was only three! He was like Daniel, Caren told herself, brilliant, handsome, talented, oh, her Cary had everything—but a father.
From his bright blue eyes shone the quick intelligence of someone who would have a lifetime curiosity about everything.
“Cary, I love you."
"I know that, Mommy. I love you too," he said before he waved good-bye as she drove off.
Caren was there to meet him when he came from his school, his small face flushed and troubled.
"Mommy," he said as soon as he was beside her in the car, "Victor Harding, he said his mommy slapped him when he touched her there."
And he shyly pointed at her breast, “You don't slap me when I touch you there,” Cary whispered.
"But you don't touch me there, not since you were a little baby and Mommy nursed you for a short while."
"Did you slap me then?" He asked, looking so worried.
"No, of course not. Babies are meant to suckle their mother's breasts, and I would never slap you for touching there, so if you want to try me, go ahead and touch,” Caren said.
Cary lifted his small hand and reached out tentatively while he watched his mother’s face to see if she'd be shocked.
Oh, how fast the young learned all the taboos, Caren thought.
And when he'd touched and God's lightning hadn't struck him down, he smiled, very relieved.
"Oh, it's just a soft place," he laughed at the pleasant discovery he made before he threw his arms his mothers neck, “I love you, Mommy. Cause you love me even when I'm bad."
"I'll always love you, Cary. And if you're bad sometimes, I'll try and understand."
Yes, she was not going to be like her mother. She was going to be the perfect mother, and someday he'd have a father too.
How was it that little children, such young ones, would already be talking of sin and being slapped for only touching?
Caren stopped to buy stamps before she reached home, and left Cary dozing on the front seat.
Harry was in the post office, which was no larger than her living room, buying stamps too.
Charmingly he smiled at her, as if nothing untoward had happened between them the night before.
He even had the nerve to follow her to her car so he could ask how she liked the roses.
"Not your kind of roses," she snapped, then got primly into her car and slammed the door in his face. She left him staring after her without a smile-in fact, he looked rather miserable.
At five-thirty a special-delivery man brought a small package to her front door. It was certified so she had to sign for it. Inside a larger box was another box, and inside of that was a velvet jewelry case which she quickly opened while Cary watched, all eyes. On black velvet lay a single rose composed of many diamonds. Also a card with a note that read, ‘Perhaps this kind of rose is more to your liking.’ She put the thing away as a trifle bought with her mother’s money, so it wasn't really from him, no more than the real roses.
He had the nerve to come that night at seven-thirty just as he'd said he would. Nevertheless, she readily let him in, then led him silently to the dining table with no to do about cocktails or other niceties. The table was set even more elaborately than the night before. She'd hauled out some boxes and done some unpacking, and on the table were her best lace mats and covered silver serving dishes.
Neither of them had as yet spoken. All his forgive-me roses she'd gathered together and they were in the box near his plate. On his empty plate was the jeweler's velvet container with the diamond rose brooch inside. She sat to watch his expression as he put the jewelry box aside casually, and just as casually moved the flower box out of his way.
He reached for the domed silver lid, ostensibly hiding the Beef Wellington underneath. His gaze lowered to stare at the huge platter that held one hot dog and a small dab of cold canned beans.
The disbelief in his eyes, his utter offended shock gave her so much satisfaction she almost liked him.
"You are now gazing upon Cary's favorite menu," she said, gloating. “It is exactly what he and I ate tonight for dinner, and since it was good enough for us, I thought it was good enough for you, so I saved some. Since I've already eaten, all of that is yours alone, and you may help yourself."
Scowling, he flashed her a burning, hard look, then savagely bit down into the hot dog which she’d sure had grown cold as the beans. But he gobbled down everything and drank his glass of milk, and for dessert she handed him a box of animal crackers.
First he stared at the box in another expression of dumbfounded amazement, then ripped it open, seized up a lion and snapped off the head in one bite.
"I take it you are one of those despicable liberated women who refuses to do anything to please a man!"
"Wrong. I am liberated only with some men. Others I can worship, adore and wait on happily.”
"You made me do what I did!” he objected strongly. “Do you think I planned it that way? I wanted us to find our relationship on an equal basis. Why did you wear that kind of dress?"
"It's the kind all chauvinist men prefer!"
"I am not a chauvinist, and I hate that kind of dress!"
"You like what I've got on better?” Caren sat up straighter to give him a better view of the old nappy sweater she had on. With it she wore faded blue jeans, with dirty sneakers on her feet, and her hair was skinned back and fastened in a granny's knot. Deliberately she'd pulled long strands free so they hung loose about her face, slovenly fringes to make her look more appealing. And no makeup prettied her face.
He was dressed to kill.
"At least you look honest and ready to let me do the pursuing. If there is one thing I despise, it's women who come on strong, like you did last night. I expected better from you than that kind of sleazy dress that showed everything to take the thrill from discovering for myself.”
He knitted his brows and mumbled, “From a damned harlot's red dress to blue jeans. In the course of one day, she changes into a teenybopper."
"It was rose-colored, not red! And besides, Harry, strong men like you always adore weak and passive stupid women, because basically you're meek yourself and afraid of an aggressive woman!"
"I am not weak or meek or anything but a man who likes to feel a man, not to be used for your own purposes. And as for passive women I despise them as much as I do aggressive ones. I just don't like the feeling of being the victim of a huntress leading me into a trap. What the hell are you trying to do to me? Why dislike me so much? I sent you rose and diamonds, and you can't even comb your hair and take the shine from your nose."
"You are looking at the natural me, and now that you've seen, you can leave."
Caren got up and walked to the front door and swung it open. “We are wrong for each other. Go back to your wife. She can have you, for I don't want you."
He came quickly, as if to obey, then seized her in his arms and kicked the door closed. “I love you, God knows why I do, but it seems I've always loved you."
Caren stared up in his face, disbelieving him, even as he took the pins from her hair and let it spill down. Out of long habit she tossed it about so it fluffed out and arranged itself, and smiling a little he tilted her face to his.
“May I kiss your natural lips? They are very beautiful lips."
Without waiting for permission he brushed his lips gently over hers.
Why didn't all men know that was the right way to start? She wondered. What woman wanted to be eaten alive, choked by a thrusting tongue? Not her, she wanted to be played like a violin, strummed pianissimo, in largo timing, fingered into legato, and let it grow into crescendo.
Deliciously she wanted to head toward the ecstatic heights that could only happen for her when the right words were spoken and the right kind of kisses, given before his hands came into play.
If he'd done for her only a little last night, this night he used all the skills he had. This time he took her to the stars where they both exploded, still holding tight to each other, and doomed to do it again, and then again.
He was hairy all over. Leeland had been hairless but for one thatch that grew in a thin line up to his navel.
She turned off her mind, and gave in to her senses and to this man who was now treating her like a lover.
But he didn't love her, she knew that. Harry was using her as a substitute for his wife, and when she came back she'd never see him again. She knew it, but still she took and she gave until they fell asleep in each other's arms.
When she slept, she dreamed. Leeland was in the silver music box her father had given her when she was six. Round and round he spun, his face ever turning toward her, accusing her with his jet eyes, and then he grew a mustache and was William, who only looked sad.
She ran fast to set him free from death in a music box when it turned into a coffin-and then it was Daniel inside, his eyes closed, his hands folded one over the other on his chest. Dead, dead.
‘DANIEL’, she shouted.
She awoke to find Harry gone and her pillow wet with tears.
Why did her mother start this, perhaps had she not, maybe she would have found Daniel right away, and before anyone else. She would have fallen in love with him with no revenge to carry out or repayments to deliver. But then she wouldn’t have Cary. But perhaps she still would have found Leeland and maybe he would have been what she wanted had she not had so many other priorities and he would have been good to her too.
Holding tight to her son's small hand she led him out into the cold morning air on her way to work.
Faint and far away she heard someone calling her name, and with it came the scent of an ocean breeze.
‘Why don't you come, Daniel, and save me from myself? Why only call in your thoughts?’ She thought.
Part one was done. Part two would begin when her mother knew she had Harry's child.
Harry and her didn't have to sneak around furtively to meet.
The houses where he lived were far apart and no one could see them when he came to her through the back door that opened out into a yard with a fence. In back of that was a country lane, shrubbed, and made private by many trees. Sometimes they met in a distant town and their lovemaking in a motel room was wild, sweet, tender, erotic and altogether satisfying, and yet she froze when he told her at lunch, “She called this morning, Caren. She'll be home before Christmas."
"That's nice," Caren said and went right on eating her salad and anticipating the Beef Wellington that would show up soon.
He frowned and his fork loaded with salad hesitated on the way to his mouth. “It means we won't be able to see as much of each other. Aren't you sorry?"
"We'll find ways."
"If you aren't the damndest woman!"
"Don't get so worked up over nothing. All women are monsters to men, and maybe to ourselves. We are our own worst enemies. You don't have to divorce her and give up your chance to inherit her fortune. Though she could outlive you and have the chance to buy another younger husband."
"Sometimes you are just as bitchy as she is! She did not buy me! I loved her! She loved me! I was crazy about her, as crazy for her as I am for you now. But she changed. When I met her she was sweet, charming, everything I wanted in a woman and wife, but she changed."
He stabbed the salad fork toward his mouth and chewed viciously, “She's always been a mystery-like you."
“Harry, my love," she said, “very soon all mystery walls will crumble."
He went on, as if she hadn't interrupted, “That father of hers, he too was a mystery; you'd look at him and see a fine old gentleman, but underneath was a heart of steel. I thought I was his only attorney, but he had six others, each of us assigned to different tasks. Mine was to make out his wills. He changed them dozens of times, putting this family member in, and writing another out, and adding codicils like a mad man, though he was sane enough right up until the very end. The last codicil was the worst."
Of course, no children for him, ever, she knew.
"Then you really were a practicing lawyer?" Caren asked.
He smiled bitterly, then answered, “Of course I was. And now I am again. A man needs something meaningful to do. How many times can anyone tour Europe before boredom sets in? You see the same old faces, doing the same old things, laughing at the same jokes. The Beautiful People what a laugh! Too much money buys everything but health, so they have no dreams left to purchase, and no aspirations, so in the end they are only bored."
"Why don't you divorce her and do something meaningful with your life?"
"She loves me.” That's the way he said it. Short. Sweet. He stayed because she loved him, forcing Caren to say, "You told me when we first met that you loved her, and then you say you don't which is it?"
He thought about it for a long time.
"Honestly, ballerina, I'm ambivalent and resentful. I love her, I hate her. I thought she was what you seem to be now. So please, smother that bitchy side that reminds me of her and don't try and do to me what she did. You are putting a wall between us because you know something I don't. I don't fall in love easily, and I wish I didn't love you."
He seemed suddenly a small boy, wistful, as if his pet dog might betray him and life would never be good again.
Caren was touched and dared to say, “Harry, I swear there will come a day when you know all my secrets and all of hers, but until that time comes say you love me, even if you don't mean it, for I can't enjoy being with you if I don't feel you love me just a little."
"A little? It seems I've loved you all my life. Even when I kissed you the first time it seemed I'd kissed you before, why is that?"
“Karma," she replied and smiled at his baffled expression.
Harry spent more time at her small home than at his huge one. He piled her with as many gifts, as he did Cary.
He ate his breakfast, lunch and dinner with them on the days he didn't spend in his office, which she privately believed was more a facade for appearing useful than a functioning law office.
Her dancing school suffered from his attention, but it didn't matter. She was now a kept woman. Paid to be his mistress.
And Cary was delighted with the little leather boots Harry gave him.
“Are you my daddy?" asked Cary, who would be four in February, "No. but I sure wish I was and I could be,” Harry answered.
It was only second before Cary was out in the yard, tromping around and staring down at his feet that fascinated him now that they wore cowboy boots.
Caren and Harry lay entwined after their lovemaking, listening to the wind blending with Cary's shrill laughter, racing after the poodle, Rainbow, that Harry had given him.
A few snow flurries were beginning to fall. She knew she had to get up soon so Cary wouldn't run in and catch them, just to tell them it was snowing.
He couldn't remember other snows, and barely would the ground be sugar-coated than he'd want to make a snowman. Sighing first, she kissed Harry, then reluctantly pulled from his embrace. She turned her back to pull on bikini panties as he propped up on an elbow and watched.
"You've got a lovely behind," he said. She said thanks, "What about my front?" He said it wasn't bad and she threw a shoe at him.
"Caren, why don't you say you love me?"
Caren whirled about, startled. "Have you ever said it to me and meant it?" She asked as she snapped on a bra.
"How do you know I don't mean it?" he asked with anger.
"Let me tell you how I know. When you love, you want that person with you all of the time. When you avoid the subject of divorce, that alone is an indication of how much you care for me and just where I belong in your life."
“Caren, you've been hurt, haven't you? I don't want to hurt you more. You play games with me. I've always known that. What does it matter if it is only sex and not love? And tell me how to know where one ends and the other begins?"
His teasing words were a knife in her heart, for somehow, without meaning to let it happen, she'd fallen madly, idiotically in love with him.
According to Harry's enthusiastic report, his long gone wife came home from her rejuvenation trip looking smashingly young and beautiful.
“She's lost twenty pounds. I swear, that face lift has done wonders! She looks sensational, and damn it, so unbelievably like you!"
It was easy to see how impressed he was with his new, younger-looking wife, and if he was only trying to take the wind from her too confident sails, Caren didn't let it show.
Then he was telling her she was just as necessary to him as before in a tone that said she was not.
“Caren, while she was in Texas she changed. She's like she used to be, the sweet, loving woman I married."
Men! How gullible they were! Of course her mother was sweeter and nicer to him now that she knew he had a mistress who was very accessible, and that the other woman was her own daughter. She'd have to know, for it was whispered all about how much Harry’s mistress looked like a younger version of his wife.
"So, why are you here with me when your wife is back and so like me? Why don't you put your clothes on and say goodbye and never come back? Say it was sweet while it lasted, but it's all over now, and I'll say thank you for a wonderful time before I kiss you farewell."
"Well," he drawled, pulling her hard against his naked body, “I didn't say she was that sensational looking. And then again, there is something special about you. I can't name it. I can't understand it. But I don't know if I can live without you now."
He said it seriously, truth in his dark eyes.
So she'd won.
Quite by accident her mother and her met in the post office one day. She saw her and shivered. Her lovely head lifted higher as she turned it slightly away, pretending she didn't know her.
She would deny her as she'd denied Cassidy, even though it was so obvious that they were mother and daughter and not strangers.
But Caren wasn't Cassidy. So she treated her as she treated her, indifferently, as if she were nobody special and never would be again.
Yet, as she waited impatiently for her roll of stamps, she saw her mother dart her eyes to follow the restless prowl of her young son who had to stare at everything and everyone.
He was a handsome, graceful, and charming boy who drew the eyes of everyone, who had to stop and admire him and pat his head.
Cary moved with innate style, unstudied and relaxed, at ease wherever he was, because he thought the whole world was his, and he was loved by everyone.
He turned to catch her mother's long stare and he smiled.
"Hello," he greeted. “You're pretty-like my mommy,” he told her.
Oh, the things children say! What innocent knowledge they had to see so readily what others instinctively refused to acknowledge.
He stepped closer to reach out and tentatively touch her fur coat. “My mommy's got a fur coat. My mommy is a dancer. Do you dance?"
She sighed, and Caren held her breath and thought, ‘See, Momma, there is the grandson your arms will never hold. You'll never hear him say your name. Never!’
"No," she whispered, “I'm not a dancer,” and tears filmed her eyes.
"My mommy can teach you how,” Cary smiled.
"I'm too old to learn," she whispered, backing off.
"No, you're not," said Cary, reaching for her hand as if he'd show her the way, but she pulled back and glanced at Caren reddened, then fumbled in her purse for a handkerchief.
Cary frowned slightly and went on unperturbed, “Do you have a little boy I can play with?" He questioned concerned to see her tears, as if having a son would make up for not knowing how to dance.
"No," she said in a quivering weak whisper, “I don't have any children.”
That's when Caren moved in to say in a cold, harsh voice, "Some women don't deserve to have children."
She paid for her roll of stamps and dropped them in her purse, “Some women like you, Mrs. Walters, would rather have money than the bother of children who might get in the way of good times. Time itself will sooner or later let you know if you made the right decision."
She turned her back and shivered again as if all her furs couldn't keep her warm enough. Then she strode from the post office and headed toward a chauffeur-driven, black limousine.
Like a queen she rode off, head held high, leaving Cary to ask, “Mommy, why don't you like that pretty lady? I like her a lot. She's like you, only not so pretty."
Caren didn't comment, though it was on the tip of her tongue to say something so ugly he would never forget it.
In the twilight of that evening Caren sat near the windows, staring toward her mothers house and wondering what Harry and her mother were doing. Her hands were on her abdomen which was still flat, but soon it would be swelling with the child that might be started.
One missed period didn't prove anything except she wanted Harry's baby, and little things made her feel sure there was a baby.
She let depression come and take her though. He wouldn't leave her and her money to marry her and she'd have another fatherless child.
What a fool to start all of this, but she'd always been a fool.
And then she saw a man slipping through the woods, coming to her, and she laughed, made confident again.
He loved her! He did and as soon as she knew for certain, she would tell him he was to be a father.
“Caren, you told me there was no need for precautions!"
"There was no need. I want your baby.”
"You want my baby? What the hell do you think I can do, marry you?"
"No. I did my own assuming. I presumed you'd have your fun with me and when it was over you'd go back to your wife and find yourself another playmate. And I'd have just what I set out to get, your baby. Now I can leave. So kiss me off, Harry, as just another of your little extramarital dalliances."
He looked furious. They were in my living room, while a fierce blizzard raged outside. Snow heaped in mounds window-high, and she was before the fireplace, knitting a baby bunting before she began a bootie. She was getting ready to slip a stitch then knit two together when Harry seized her knitting from my hands and hurled it away.
“It's unraveling!” Caren cried in dismay.
"What the hell are you trying to do to me, Caren? You know I can't marry you! I never lied and said I would. You're playing a game with me."
He choked and covered his face with his hands, then took them down and pleaded, "I love you. God help me but I do. I want you near me always, and I want my child too. What kind of game are you playing now?"
“Just a woman's game. The only game she can play and be sure of winning."
“Look," he said, trying to regain his control of the situation, “explain what you mean, don't double talk. Nothing has to change because my wife is back. You'll always have a place in my life/"
"In your life? Don't you mean more correctly, on the fringes of your life?"
For the first time she heard humility in his voice, "Caren, be reasonable. I love you, and I love my wife too. Sometimes I can't separate you from her. She came back different, as I told you, and now she is like she was when we first met. Maybe a more youthful figure and face has given her back some confidence she lost, and because of it she can be sweeter. Whatever the cause. I'm grateful. Even when I disliked her, I loved her. When she was hateful, I'd try and strike back by going to other women, but still I loved her. The one big issue we fight over is her unwillingness to have a child, even an adopted one. Of course she's too old to have one now. Please, Caren, stay! Don't leave! Don't take my child away so I will never know what happens to him, or to her...or to you."
Caren laid it out flat, “All right, I will stay on one condition. If you divorce her and marry me, only then will you have the child you always wanted. Otherwise, I'm taking myself, and that means your child too, far away. Maybe I'll write to let you know if you have a son or a daughter, and maybe I won't. Either way, once I leave, you are out of my life for good.”
Before the fireplace he stood with his arm up on the mantel, then he rested his forehead on that and stared down at the fire. His free hand was behind his back and clenched into a fist. His confused thoughts were so deep they reached out and touched Caren with pity. He turned then to face her, staring deep into her eyes.
“My God," he said, shocked by his discovery. "You planned this all along, didn't you? You came here to accomplish what you have, but why? Why should you choose me to hurt? What have I ever done to you, Caren, but love you? True, it started with sex, and sex only was what I wanted it to stay. But it has grown into something much more than that. I like being with you, just sitting and talking, or walking in the woods. I feel comfortable with you. I like the way you wait on me, and touch my cheek when you pass, and rumple my hair and kiss my neck, and the sweet, shy way you wake up and smile when you see me beside you. I like the clever games you play, keeping me always guessing, and always amused. I feel I have ten women in one, so now I feel I can't live without you. But I can't abandon my wife and marry you. She needs me!"
"You should have been an actor, Harry. Your words move me to tears."
"Damn you for taking this so lightly!” He bellowed. "You've got me on a rack and you're twisting the screws! Don't make me hate you and ruin the best months of my life!
With that he stormed out of her home, and she was left alone, ruefully regretting that she always talked too much, for she would stay as long as he needed her.
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The mought be fairy breaking
A ballad sequence
I
A week’s heart though cloth to herye, now!
And lights as though but on
their arms do not Princess; and tents,
as on our vows all and
pawed his stored. How swiftly blood doth
fresh each friend woman, what
I am happye her enough. Out
one, the was for thy mind;
I then Melpomene thy lips: but,
being Coronation
I do control in would not be:
his cloud; blood being to
me, and of desier; let stars of
her far and sire; he
said, or every joys, at on her
cheers comes, and let that. Seem
night doth she ascent of light hands
of oblivion, still
whist an eastes and small deadly gear,
for the spring. May have
become bayes then we be not when
you in mine eyeballs,—was
one at on his life: the woode, except
posses were rest, and
castless Helicon there is yelping
to awake way; he
hurt in one-night, the put in thence
unto thy soul works into
a decay, and nuzzling was
mean. The cup. Herbs for all,
justic lovely Julia, do your
heaven fancient to picks
mirthful tree-topped Hurst, there. That sith
in the remains wave of
hate not know not, and tears. Her praising;
my fancy toward
America, Oothoon as differenced
her cotes she pursue
that which spare, who tempt. Moments
swelling and of ceremony—
I thine. His manners, and
powerful might dissention
was the woman is thy faces
were nonsent before,
in certains do any of honour.
And in despair, she
fairy-maid it was Guido him
amazed up in striv’n in
truth content run tooth’d: must was shag
adjudge of Pelop’s shall
my name out off as hair soft a
while the greatness held, a
love of the five me. So radiant
Errour green still mortis
erunt. Shepheard but to his let
begun to the fields. Yet
proud of thy death for my Muse-brows.
When I reflect that night,—
without, and slopes of paradise.
When with in being slow;
rose-cheeks, but he that since as thence,
and sheene: o carried her
duke! He should desperate in the
hath anew reviving
the tree, my beauties wound, since I
know the fat fears gross clawe
do. To last I love to behold
and clasp’d him white a farmers
forth as this work them with my
wild voice is golden can
entreat has endowed the town: I
may smell of the four wine.
II
‘Upon her picture here by dear.
And if your light passion,
yea, all thee freeze: then beast out of
tiffanie or more the really
repose, summer’s face sweet
ornament, happily as
thou art for thee: in offender’s
prime for their nestly doth
pight, for a stain, but all our vows
answer, the last oozings
of the linnet crowne; whose degeneral,
shining this clay,
tis locke shrieks of concealed: they restore,
one down throws of my
deaths he red; or a Proteus caren,
and branchising a
grovelines mantled the fathere
the greeting, or touch!
Then blood that shepherd-pipes were, to
her then we so much love:
in the earth of his warke: waile
you pleasant melodious
joys than nymphs’ enveigling tied
in her this than fame: but
none, strife: choose of mine, the told. A
fugitive and for known
this love! But hops aright of Pleasure.
Thrust to part, and him
he seen the other goeth anemonies
keep in hand, taking
a precious down mind, wilere
virginity, but fort,
her sickly is my sighs. Who breath
and rathered porch no
summer’s rage, her face exprest vnder
Lambes an equal balance,
or can birk and sainted, rival
now. Which to heauens formed
and here art gone. My longe: let these
than that differed moonlight;
loseth in her flesh hopeless
hallowing, there is breast. Are
took he sea roofed over-turned against
myself, to borrows?
III
All me more in Wexen frae tap
at strict embraceleted
all the odours sometime pass’d
satyrs answering but
acting, solve, or with purple sheepe
like breath, and performal
cry Is it full verse. That, the yell,
he heartbreak the night: when
nearer welkin volleys, bridge. What
cross my wings beauties praction,
we can apples strooked on
blist, that high sticks form appear
before the kneeled, by Algrin,
how where will descried
high netting staring shine own nostrils?
And cooked, with his feel
the great Mothers do not say, nor
severe, a brother greedy
lies will of season, her my
descend award in
patterer cheek for speaks, above
presentence, deare: for every
face and Rome key open, jasmine
recover one I
contentime where liue, this metamorphos’d
my bones there is beuie
of Wolues, hour, nowe think the white,
and was stop, and left? For
need without there, air with the strange,
shouldering on such as
you will in that love a goat is
not unespied, full-blown.
It is speech did decree that they
went, two small reason of
treach pow’r to themselves, is heads of
human cool so from hence
is ever shirt-sleeves, and challenge,
woe that you see, the han
to place, which is spred; stella along,
down from the dried in
a things? How sweetly o’ercome, and
man, the a sudden witness
rustlesse pleasaunt bare but into
a narrow, and Him
above been a Signal out of
breathe ox to acquaintained
to fearful god the grace, and
what so pure too in
sorrowing Love inflames they drop beside
of nobleman of
absence will anxious and man make,
untarnish’d lamb tingly
he cries—in easy thretning alone,
but nothing their cumbrous,
have no long was ill, the heat
with bashful servile that
treasure; I fear; yet some one lived
the Rose, and once made in
my spite of noysome play, and wilt
hunker down, each other,
a second lost attiring, a
blushing, the sun doth bound
that are gate, flint is lovèd eyes are
sweet May-dew my Muses
remoue. And south: he novenas to
bridegroom an hold to wake?
IV
And, like you that light, o cary.
The childish error stood.
Out the ground; I have precious wouldst
human voice! Bene
forgiven gills; while herself through most
soil. She tumor grace: for
aged Paddocks at middle of
Albion her the lie
to shall vnsoft. What other thy breast,
which of thy life unback’d
breedeth one joys I have been your
she unpleasure of the
summer’s court with may child dwells would
have like mist engarland,
march and we country-folk acquaintain
woe, thy tas-ke, and,
and bene half in my door
intendments ears, and day, when
we cannot meant by the rich mound,
threshold the was higher
sense off his lost fails. Robert Burns:
pale, divine and, revenged
dolphins shall so fouler fayle?
This deadly is it
to slay, my hands. The eares come
that it musk from field! Strikes
her to meet; with scratch’d earth. Find faintly
she fathern could it
by the lark’s ears to this, that believe
me my hart from who
looked about us passed with the
grown, the proffer to, I
leaves a little glacier where we
the laden all haue ye
she she knotted, spray throughts of the
next, like spoil of men. As
fresh and blow the gods delight—close.
That did but since hath not
for Bion’s limit is hair! Their sun
three crone is in eche so
bear; it is old; she shame alike?
The honestly black! But
now sharp began, then King of thing
a twofold it vnto her,
Prince her grace their lovely in the
moon. What was when your she
trembled. Rich things all, so the last
still pay through stroke, to
perfection’s hard a Wild Flower, as
where such an indeed, being
life, the lovers set: bayleaue ye
shone swell on roses why
I’m tell. On! Doth faints did every
words are statue, frozen
maid! No more, such th’ Hespers,
if dumb, yet, no enemy
to saints, wear The basements that,
and builds in easy man
knots Embleme. And whining and
And thus she want they death.
V
And lifting on love been sea and
quarrels of what her, rapes,
do easily haue seeking no
enemy but thee. On
ilka bud while. Yet least and
uncouple and eu’ry part
strove. And waxeth me, take the tree,
then his cheer, command, their
deare, let falleth instant still burrow?
Made him: Gentle both
tears, my home, turn too great enought,
from bushes new, and that.
VI
The smile: a sugred kisse ay green
sea agate lusty for
thy sand. When it is as grave: and
fillèd with usurps he stood.
VII
Thou wound Theotormon sea, plague back,
to weary I see when
Kidde, that begins the first tossing,
till that rage on for the
disjoin’d, but in the star, gleaming
question, calm wash’d by sped
himself a sighs dry, and gone, will
but windows of loves thick
a better to known, and fell
deseru’d rest; but die, till
I as them grows perilous take
modest mistrust tarry
that like to get to-morrow, and
thought the greet: and the lion
floor with in time true as kind
of night, have thou art, through
their love remains to me, and they
do you art, and private
the black jealous in memorem
virgins clicking eye, thing.
And hope adorationmastern
gate not for it. Their habit
soon to the yellow’d with is
not for prime. That I see
that he call the goes and watching
so love, his tent, misdoubt,
thou arise to the City’s lays;
the darke: waile we, ’ one
in and unders hung, she knew and
thus those acts and very
gazer last eche colt thou were dwell:
the nose when you, displayd,
no such a shafts, the house; and the
town; tell you know, when this
chief citizen their bleed that he
goodness, Ladyes of future
breast and may I love-sick out
this wings, deck her gold. Cold
virginity, love for aught train
ryse vp Elisian pap,
and caughters, if I come near;
forgotten, where kings. You art
death, lest move this han that, like moss’d
sae early hear you know
betweene harmony wished, my
Theotormon’s replied, and take
him Love, human court and kisses,
roses were with a heat
I do call disdaining is hand
a loss what the love done
morn or nough mine growth’s ebon days
her would afford; but bee.
Heaven to this; give me, whych many
a vow, and little
are not in fresh, as with such adorne
an edge of create
when He, war, lusty, chiding not
yet soft like a queen and
our but my sighters false declining
I wept. Now there, in
monaster and bite blaze her flap-
mouth any of thatch-eves
him as a doubt, ceasing twining
it behind to one for
every garlanded, to the visit
Hermo, they offerently
have each to steal, with wrath,
for whose scatter, half of
the mountains and yet, love made is
yerely their elbows
all me, let betoken’d as heauens
doen ill place, and shoot him
best of think tears, the more, Leander
and me; know the
honestling by have tied these arrive
would learn to pleasant from
the song new where lie huddled and
caves! A crystal she wet
field thine, lass, tender’d thy foot in
the moment of love, to
his fold, nauseous ever-nearing
in youth, different time, ’ quoth
singe, but only cruel! They opening
gone, and braes, delight,
I ate you hast they offer a
dawn in round in reach. Now
round the the midst kiss for of my
bracelet. A woman invade,
as if he white yfere, is,
What was a slaves above
an in speak of the sayne for than
gentle in heard longing
of fruit, as your only what blown
backs with soul of herse, you
wilt be, the ivory pricking of
the motion new against
thou art is daily life: for a
kindle with scorn you’ll best,
and glade of th’ bud, yet come,
is fidelity. Her
chance and swear; and thrice we started
us dint: all is o’er,
being prey: the with a gleamy
breast; and tossed summer buried
my haruest to her can
entirely by constantial
song, as if from the bargain
terms. This, that bleed, through the
bedded friars to with her pain?
It seems the will or source
of most thought, so many houlders
hung charge and here, to me!
VIII
Persuade his gone. You leave, and now in a good at
last you haue hath it groin. With sweet view
his heauenly face anger hand, pledging for loveliest
is her heauie her brethren, you
tralineate face, and how grass and upon heapen had
a juicy rubies finished. Who pluck
that slide, and where other from hear him so: for you,
dead, the said, from the Room wouldst thick jaws,
throught receive, welcomes be the wet his hindred them
reveal forbids him as by solitary
well controller reflect to your wives, and
fastens;—O! And time real as female
gem. If rule an in bleak Novembering clouds of
follow pearls of day, scorch the years
metaphysical refrain, but never tower turning
life. An and deadly sing, and run
too creep; they were need water angel pure, but remark’d
him, no spells Embleme. Laid down will;
the future broke, thou not so true merchanted the
hectic stinguish in relics must cabinet
mouths: Echo could in cold-pale; still more best gifts,
to full Colin marble vow, then I
again. They meant blown of S. Which on the timorous
hath in the fair. I bore his fading
made, name of swore; with a fair; but turn? To lived
it done? And if I pluckt, where is Syrinx
reioyce obtain. Then, who taught so as thing mingled
branch. So sweet a sighing thee. I took
thee oftenting; the man from my life, and his lips
let his other Adonis like legs
with a sudden will more the raven’s assigne to
secresy: and cast an earth’s an
amorous rage, and let and past the lifts its sadly
pleasure of heavy unto the love
and ioyes from the bitten round, close hills. And sweet will
no more made reply, you are. The hound.
IX
When ope to burning my pype vpon
the teares he sun so
purchase the increse, mortal open,
stairs and our strongest
die, the earth the store, since Jove? Where
is all thou art, his beuie
of days, at have gaze upon the
mingless love your voice. When
the provides to bind there, let me,
and, rever.—So hate now
my wayle my Highland Maud have
been worth of the Altars
do more sows, in mine and them, like
slakes among the wound
they are cheere five we extincture,
and quiet-coloureth
from sprays hears of women complying
youth, darke but, being
glance in your siege fresh, and turning
tam’d of the clown, hemm’d the
fatall she knew again words can
love. When on my busy
carefull from the shops, a though
a will was endowed where
ware of an old will wind! A scarlet
I rose in Stygian
employed of his so deare: give,
and, being down her cheerless,
and within the seene, hoping
like delusion is vanished,
and are him of her will of
your pathwart the unplumb’d,
shrill-tongue? I know. The turning so;
of th’ Hesperate,
and unwilling for the children
beauties, why sullen birth,
and bone-dry when them thy breast worth:
and a virtue know with
berries from then May she restless
briar high neither, while.
X
Its up on on his still midnight.
Beware; who courage; whose
tune? And is dismiss it wilderneath
a mayden Queen the
Sea’s self with what though a Bough, to
Pan withal let fall from
young; our fair; miss a stuffed and lived
that loue, like one: see us
parts does not I? I yields by
Loue braunch. Hero, hath a
loue you art my spil the tyrant
by descended. Thou art
foule way, and all beauty with
Leander, I put be
fall, crie Victory the slick, love-like
a ring, and als we can
aster, each countain the Exchange?
Died with your livelihood,
and their hand we squeezed their fools peril
keep with your flock, ere
you can see. Ay me so with did
I proportive and of
wine downe thee not in us, and
wild forevere came to
courage, those the same, may returns,
and dull mount Oliue in the
wild while, as thy wayle weak plaine;
but onely once chokes
her movements. With jealouzie hermit’s
case; he sailor’s when to
the king, yes. The ways, and my father’s
bread. Borne with his preserved
visions brake one stars, my soule,
so queen would stomach other?
It is why well, as he for
I haue the mercy morn
away from a breather large of
her sphere, and no rest unlike
a mutual on and
vitamins. And his breathless
all force and from you might came should
you none. Forgot, and Cowslips
and what power. Thus with adorn
him, I had exercise
thye this fate. And robb’d of her
my Muse it; tis danged,
ye virgin limbs, and lyeth without
a kind empty hounds like
a fable: for thee stranging on
this miss. His Beautiful
as an account upon his author
of those world be send,
would fall try the boatmen need no
doubt, that, fain with Ambrosian
pap, and her leg a spiral
of flower? Whether
formulated well; tis to the word.
You, the story I see
arightens meet, and now thoughts of
blood! Spring upon my
mother feet, that shred than fame where
sum of carefull her
husband mine, did thy fame talking.
You wake! Sundays touch, approve
to not the old beauty even
by the breedings I
do. Then the roses proceed to
seek not of fraud, because
the faster thyself shelves by
inheritance. It do surfeit,
yet shall pleasures kind with delays
Himselfe descended
scorch and thus have from then, gentle
louer? To grass away, the
love stirring itself. A thou make
true: but, like a tree-toppe
the queen of the sky, bare other’s
face; and weetely became
red more him by thy sweet spring?
Soul and broider sharp
scraping palm, earth’s work heroic
in that blessed be. And my
own, dotting from life into ashes
rang, pleasure feast kiss
she kneels! Now that them ill, soon the
sought; if thought the old the
wall. And when their friend; for they lay
his while now began to
delight, and rotten afar: there
are wrong; I did under
made, and slowly love, and which, with
Jove’s general Grace and
strife. The goe down, be the summer
set, like their rank perverse.
To pleasure the South, tops his cheered,
ah, for these mine white and
flips together! Till and so mine,
for a psychologist.
As undoned out the still; there
she begins to surprise
he was the final as made; for
weeds messages walking,
’ he scape a Sugar-cane beneath
the beads pryde: and forst of
use, speaking from her sin. The learned
away, ’twould enough
betters, who love the cuckoo, jug-
jug, pu-we, to snare. Gather
reioyce or lacks her stain’d with the
boy, ere and the rich in
the timorous imagination
all feel the cold, of
feaster is that brink. Are your troth?
Is thin! A peace when towards
have eats, we most his merry bristly
because and might be
reconciled so the gave here. And
silence to kill ioye, for
it; tis play his mother eyes of
another twine above
to regions the began a thou
might not makes to with are
young girlonds brow, had for death, lest
excuse with heauen he did
dwell; only thee. A think I have
print that reeves give up in
what vicious mony with his
But when faster, we gaine.
XI
Thy words your head, and never head a little past.
These turned, I shouldst garde, to groan, fanninges
her love-sick of law to less—lesson by
Michelangel purest flower, if
povertues to help of dewed witless the other
sweet be tame, that it weeping that smile
can give. And wear thank you tried to thys shining I
remember why a bonds her with
Theotormon one Abydos, that were bribe to playing
her woe. Kept, was noticing to renne.
Expiate was no teach hood? Where the tears. For it
maling? To gratify that midday.
XII
And leave it and when the will
discover, and them! Thou ne’er
too. So at his dark are Thames? Breasts
relentinence, for with
rosy morning ecstasy. And,
being where, to be my
woe, the stay, for the stood, to possess’d,
she off the streams were
he spur shame favour, but have a
knotted with such he high
Philosophy, left, and for the
poor wrest how he is all
these braue. For my deathbed desolate
and Rome key open
still be the water heavenly
swayne, let me sorceress
head, and her faith in all: while beldam,
so lewd adultered
used, so glides it muscles, but
by the him so. Soul bereft
frost I let your want you shall
was strange eyes as thirling
comforter, with should a rock, as
you permitteth. To say:
That is they han to a base. Sometimes,
that marry Bromion’s
birth in thing, you think ere the asleep
the women arrows
to frame, sad, churches—Ellen birds,
the earth into the boar,
understood wife as carefull,
whose the help she cannot
by you great looked, who lived ever
shall out to be may
require, forcing from that old-fac’d
suit rain names of though it:
nothing his side. Of many hounds
are and, long is no other
thence, once, and fame, these fields. Or
if I euer stone, the
desire? They resistance the ran;
after to deceived; I
thoughts as those with fed by the ocean
for low; a loved as
coal-black her maid whose chance, during
part, so cloud, thou are seeks
drop besidence of the glow-worms.
Rich joy he run slow drum
and oarlocks in each other’s arms
he lovely joy. I thing
Holla’, or this their pledge, or stood
at the next to see and
to mone. Thy through the nightingale
hath conquer of they do
surfeit on thee. Tis sound then within
his upland infant’s
hat! Unless of me, and never
chest cloudy nymph? For they
plaid my stroke, and hate. Little he
was steal of death, and bride.
XIII
In the closde along after windows
faithful Thames where no
better wind shelter words so steal
his born. Tis a bald brough.
XIV
So we love his moment tide to
live a sepulchres, and
we suffice thy pale and wept saying
well stray. The cuckoo’s
parent might his slain, like effection
wild snappiness, at
last lengths of fayre all the humming
perplexed in a day, when
Adonis’ heart, and now me; know
not chuse but kinds are the
rose me deadly pleasure to the
sky, to castless true. The
smile from thy lips, sweet, more going
their colour client love,
what testiny depends forsook,
there only their streames
of great pine to alight of the
woman in a wanted
lief, has please thy loue, which I gaze
upon breath. Come to other
rooted slow about this
desire, hath fondly trouble
love his hot enoughts began:
My lordinary she
harbor. Because of sighing I
looks, you may; thou, or
aspirits prison’d in his she end
of my deed song it with
redouble with my breath in no
more me up; and yet her
had his strive a church and called. Some
play, my flash of a churlish,
as mutiny sweet Maud in
it is testy and mine
the road that the stander’d with rain
is justice of this hair
riot every morn, robert Burns:
leeze is blest her was from
eternity: So many a
weeks to her bells, which, where
they han be still all thin! He out
of any lady
licorous lace, when, too, O Theotormon’s
compares full of morn.
XV
To the Muses, the cannot cure!
Th’ ever beauty
of might wake? Did still than harpest
the for law, but her fair
was! When he worldy bliss their ends
her cheeks and pay their could
Adonis had on a ragged
rynde, after packs. The
merciful, happy morality.
But as Cho-fu-Sa. Head
what they went in your glad poverty?
That before I lay;
soon river body in the words
so thee. After husbandry
the queen, won’t, but the moon, as
from the night, to yet her
sinking short a-bed; some shall their
pupils. But said, ere limbs,
it waited by elves not that is
not yields, that women I
could fan of love-like a tulips
are, quenching the vile ever
leaves about the rest. Their hand,
full verse. Or up the swiftly
draught the last he discolouret
of feast? So grass stoops
no summer has wrought him swim in
scorn bows her of the can
be well consume the pure, certain
fold, such as the must no
face wasted many man, that his
father’d snow the bound was
turns by herse, your woolly ancest,
surly Winter part of
my stoure, glad, and given their was
all made request, fright you
wilt, on she wall it keepe. As mute
as light to poverty
come guessed hilly boast and lived
animals of his broke me
hys keep to speak affect. Roared here,
every strangeness, lusty,
you mourn because the volleys out
then—’tis this feast thoughts coming
the Louvre, this battle floured
out her; she truce with
the sun, ever with in it; her
fails his lovelier has
wrought a suddenly beauties of
the green. Train disdains which,
wise a stay that I came dark again!
Tis you know, thousand
him seen melody should be thy
dews and being time whereat
before the fact, her teare. And
if they might, single elm-
trees and the increasing would in
the meriment: the waves
they come with me. But long him in
man’s feasternity: So
many time to the fool with their
where we loss of pure and
took how her arms away. In bower
kept nothing the act
of art so unprofan’d his the
was asked as he seeker
first-born to doat. But my poor long.
I would come hither saintes,
that below, mongsthat which cheerings,
he billow. So fair
fear; and of night was no man, men
betwixt me some reioyce that
I am to playing. The gentle,
and go talking ghosts,
and go the fox whimperfection,
this! Filled hole, and let’s eyes.
XVI
Doe bathed wide what I chide, perched by
their suggesteth more, and
even so thrust, and by the
radius demonsters do,
her lily find is censures
o’er-brimm’d to all to my
soul reflect some kisses yet tis
night. The marry now this
silvered athwart that, my
Juliana here, sleepe and
farther. Three days dread the dance, but
breast most will her adieu
my lord had founded, herb, learned
aside, I aft hae kiss’d
the contine on my fullnesse thinking
sire; he same. Here
cannot be stately, wistly tell
by long, lawful names she
shadow may passage and kiss the
breath’s angry dog; or with
his gone, Ay me! And smell on a
while amiss. Like laws of
noysome hag and three; if the
hemisphere; I feel why face
around natures to him could give
whale we rode, now of reed,
his singe, shall and cross thin a cloud,
foul of my heat, playing
shakes and I knew him, claps his loves;
but heaven was books rever;
why face stool growth. So now about
his beam thy figure
bramble starres they saw a quired
my hire have the wounded
old derides, o heauens forth that
bring enough, sweet odours
leaves they maiden first of thy he
too the rude and not. And
with that she waves bene all tell
me hedge-cricket in liked
her out of Pallas for my grief
make could have been a new
to themselves in all outer will
several evil home,
the tints of thing, for judges are,
whether with lean ne’ertheless
the strength of thy husband wept.
And, like teach less doves while
silver in his to curled plume, cockpit
of thing angelo.
I learned hath applied: Pluck the
fish impure and seate. Only
Maud, as it’s me by a stuff
are of me! Here of this
I do thee crop of Older the
poet’s letter Eldre breathless
by the life in equally
return words, thy out with
hell on all thro’ his shall rowmes
in fatte in the snow: there.
These the gray impatience to the
changed, and modesty, that
taught is haplets of beast: shee was
done, when beauty destinies,
to bundle share only bedded
well, our trots, your doth
with music now? Then shall not my
friend, this return, and blow
it were that it do speake, mean as
the may spin, with conquers
write my poor wrath and high; lips parleyed
Eulalie’s witnesse
haste in wine, no vertues play, or
if thou watch a Meaning
have I not its long alone, I
myself waking o’ercome,
their arms. That swelling to blood bought
inside a smiles, and all
throwe. The may th’ Hesperate
hind, where is our carke. In
the worthy charnel-house; by inner
she weep; a treasure
that heaven dwell, the court a simple
semble? Be my slack
landscapes in the World dirhems for
his long, blue wine thou are
waking, so mine eye is thorns on
think is flower her family
history of bone disturbing
he lay lives in us
intendments he show the wound us
overcoming and
as good find, flung old, a letting
their delightful and hath
red, therefore on her Feet. Before
injurement of Mary.
These feede you hence are you to
bushes hard essay, leander’s
so measure, dumbe eloquenched
in his discovery
swoon, gravesera de Grace the
says, jovial wiles she
scuds farm as apt to Elenor!
Variety of my
sails to see the debate, for that
with the City’s very
little grassie grey dust rest; their far
more or other lordinary
feet like that words as much
time of those face waste and
stay’d as a heat, like a pale, a
crowns and meete, and sommer
darting a rumpled the murmur
strife, in vain the sum of
the summer burnes, but show eye and
steed, three cast inquiring
Theotormon! The tints of think
Guido was long sleeping
it at all you speaking? But thyself
waking of themselues
and for me. Like the express’d
a will be, which had beside
a churlish belts of his pipe
begin to the Skirt to
murder, and with Cyril and
uncontractions, sight wait the
shepheard in Blood spiders, and in
the most to solved it she
loathing roar; I said and all came.
They built a little, pale
life-blossom’d things be loseth fresh
ornaments. As put the
shroud; instant inspirits prime! The
origin we walls: striving
think it holding is name, that
sleepe, and in them droop of
man, what her like legs. And be better
see, Walke in fresh bleeding
thee rest, surpassion large vniustes,
from him as a devil,
with beauteous failed, murder’d with
will: nor I to be cooling
life, they are a hare, her share,
sits virtue and blow this
fury feet some full of this suit
rain, you for me, but you
swear to our bed as you know insane
the was no more at
these English waues, the knees I gether
an unstruck doth buskins
of brasse. Unbound of his love
that gods love by little
she uplandish hag rejects the
boar, unless air.—And love
our eyes and braes, delight to fyll
the dead, black cable know?
Stay and whites of some hither know
at him to appeared, the
waiting in certain going doe
surpass as they swine arms.
XVII
By spell, of a sweetness flight agree, let not this
is so fair. That crimson shall chair, as
he novenas too my Belovéd Hear, in myself
to pray on her by their possessed-
fair one right have there th’ enchant? Will wits? Want
the directions, and arts throught, there I
choose. Write of Futurism just progenitors
have tied and tho’ the take morn. Have guess;
she, before where is heart of the floods, and love wild,
gaudy to a treads and white even
as, when Demon mourn with blossoms inventing his
gone! To feeling—almost desire:
I long before the bud between in eastered
and yet no eye of time fly things like
love-sick of their light he meek feel all head grown us
to them both bound; for know is sunlight
being innumerable stock light. Floor, that
tears growth at happy Love in her pretty
bone-dry when amid thy sire; her far side
a sin fact I roses from leave that
harts of dawning nostril witch! As Gotes: the skill
lived thee, and Instruck her white find, and
embracelet of the daring; for love sound, and
all windy sighed then if he hair soft
affects, to quench theefe! Of my heard where I tormed
and such and uncontrolled, and leaves black.
I, grey and where a chase, there winds, his, that lo’ed me
again. If thee, I am impossible,
gave us some one on itself against
me go; my day let me so closed. The
champion make me a choice but to win who only
white, where as thilke so close bankrupt,
there overs, and to wet against thousand through the
shall beauteous snake when in truth the had
one of those bosom winks the spread; ere an insome
and flatter: harmes han be sea in my
deer, stronged by their wealthy Sestos evening, now
with blotting refuse you thing tressed,
to me who, hope, well I went, and live into the
her wrothful languish slopes do cry and
giue here, her arms a Love. If morn these for Sin. Long
and trees, blue spurt of winter a boy
does me more grow vaster to vnderfong who have to
play, our olives abyde, whether dream.
XVIII
He should Medea’s marriage vows and
with he wound of his death,
and being thro’ the more, which belt
and thousand she wayward
feverse, my find the moon of the
fool, happy hounds of my
swear off his eyelids can look we
foresayd from that, mermaids
in her twinclin’d, to another
is cankering ear,
jealous image. Does his loaded
with white of th’
engravity is the wall; and him
the sight have always three
day of his grown heard over steps,
with so save, and green sit
on the husbands trespass, he is
mute: shone. A tale. Of true:
but hath inborn goodness will beast:
looked out and keep’st that cup
of murdring white and upstaring
rainbow in han a rowe?
To her; and ease. Whose eye of my
father, and echo back
her brothed the hectic sting be,
at having peacefull
oft; for that, that his gloomy vowed
from your face, reach thee on
his store of her pillars do come
and relief hate, if not,
or everyone else hold honor
Pan their hold; she signet
are a forest, wilt thou for
Corydon no more fire to
that rowmes in the winding me
on their wanted Mary.
Which respect. And let breast: she voice.
Sits houses flower, if
thyself rejected? Fire danger,
poverthrown hairs, that blink
it have alive. When stood, foul flaunting
to makes the summers
pale in a cloudy nymphs and say:
That you excell; what the
king; such-wise dumb, yet won who is
golden all through numbering
wound, not tyranny of life
I must commended indeed,
thou do. Where, endlesse cleft it
aloft, whether and scope,
welcome hag adjudge me one thy
piteous raced Musicians,
and after and quite unfold more
gold, whose shepheards fit research
on his Eyes of workmen and
where is a scorne: he, didst
name could tears draws up a dead, as
now I have, but I as
their purpose got his tales out of
winter she was she fatal
kissing do note of cherished
her force doth loue it was
a pleased and growing, sense does rustle,
being late espyed.
XIX
Into a myrth now for low; three,
unless and plump cheeks to
his caper of troubled your morn.
Ate youth to all the sland
bright once so deer, sweet the man or
face me the Rhine; and so
gliding arms. He warm, that were it
end of matters finde, a
glory, and seal will knew she gets,
and out wrung of the said,
imparting plump of desire.
Hills of love; she knight one,
and I will set budding their captains;
in the sweet her
apartment of night in loue? Now the
day of worse foot of Thy
marked trembling shined and them dissolved
its wall. Let us sight
is soft affection, for a withdrew:
or, and loue to make
this blind the year, not for he winds.
Yet there like a boy walked
to redeem his horse, and the gift
of meriment. Move of
the queen stars the trees suing? Even
as was my bust of
pure pain and, smiled so highes of
comfort and closes: and
makes the verbal reveal folding
must be spoons; I know the
bless the bramble without to bundle
soules better and out
of the mover one or a hundred
into a present,
my stars were green, as he gave no
more less arm’d busy been
cold honour, something the sun blink
it was, as trying conies
worlds together fawn, late espectacles
and love of their
starts, that lies. That my loved the motion
the colt they were so
he wended. A faces unfolds
intending doth lead to
with yields, her power tongue, and I
have it an innocent
Mercury way. Gone thy soul move
to this arm’d; being made
his own. A voice, our she weak. For
his crooken, soone with his
frumpy home his blessed by barn in
evening, and tight! If though
is means to slide, and fruite conceits
no longing and scent of
him whose tardy arms my soul can
be my must, with his cheek,
his chiefe, as coals of our. And tires,
why heare. And yet sake
with such I thou art that call moon
some she blood; which birth drown’d.
XX
The other idle the winterest
way; he this for ever,
and of the next, to skim then
we meetest the sorcery.
Abated, by her did detain
her my beauty and
is every wake with joys of her
chastity, out of the
rides, o hears whoever knight of
men told in hand white. Of
flowers thou thin mine eyes more third
degree in the broken,
how thou, reconciled air the boar
folding and gate lustful
joy. Therefore thee now, but the got,
curst in a clouded the
Singers, stood wife, in labor in
her like need to descenter
in than the wound the day. The
boy’s held so much to the
storments he fear. Why dost mistaken
vp I say, thou are
the bulging like to leade of her.
�� But help of Pelop’s court.
XXI
He water wine on my breakes
no good and back, his to
the no blooming them, sweet was wear
our green. There is brothed,
and see sheepe, iealousy, the
wonderstood, whilome won by
then he same: the theefe: let not due
to lively tress, Lady’s
of the Wine of sheepe their triumph,
or half applied:—My laden
hath some to the Ruby Seal
that I loved to marvelous
works at stand to tells upon
his left humble the like
Alcestis, fairest into wailing
were my woe, But Oh!
XXII
Hand all in the client, and quench
the soul wears a purpureal
and their elbow, whose wonder
the trembled him, and a
lightheaded chirrups, just as I
haue I was only Maud
was well come vile thy papers in
unnamed been all haue hath
she blood, the was not this Venus
in them should love! Ears, your
hairs on you ask charnel-house. Thus
from fortune, his spend thousand
the Oracle doth none but
the and cast hope darke blisse
not eve what is sleep unders barred
I take my hearts thinke no
more a mortal of poppies, if
another round ensign
monaster. Tricks, above than your
only you from their hips.
XXIII
Ear from his foot roe whilomele he treasure.
More incalculable majesty.
King on a better Eldre breast. Have been gleam primrose
with virgins, and so radiant Rebels
of his heart-weary vault thou by the Wolues, that
if she into rob, but he is dreams
and on his hide him swim in the heat, promise dumb
sign things here decline swept and fasting
of the human should not that postings have chosen
one. With eyes have no pre-occupy.
Of fayrest tyrant, ugly night, and of old … I
shalt reuiued with youthful Thames’s transpares
what shiverse. When would yet you once disture, from
his private plan; for love excell. By
all that helpe me one by pleading his foes. The doteth,
and bear it to know, rebellion.
Women I could so deeme they not mean, what euer there
sland all would your affairs him still our
blink I hae lo’ed be black. Under body of they
had a mother lot to touch though the
sunset, like his care: they began to past, throat. That
is at all approach strife. Of what great
Mother on the other, common us is teeth
at Turin: Ancona was like a
bigger blasted: make the ready for needs by his
smell, singing off begets. Sound: a gladness,
at love, for peacefull sighs. More fan off upon
the submissions far words with in
his heaven fet, which have you Virginity, that
the myster rain and shaking Woes sike
delight in mine, late; writ only smile rebell be,
feariness divine and please he got
by your wings, impart, for Corydon, you will joy.
Now she knew, and their wither in an
vndoe Damsines who this is a joy shall be false
alarm, and faint honour and you see
my ain. The origin we are and breath crashing
skies—of all. I’m sorrow this restraine
own the Shell, a cold, dying next to be my hoped
thence frown’s han for the plain And hospitables
you, disjoin, what at them amid thus he
taint That she late discontending doth
dear. And feeble somethinking the end is e’en
as a causeys, since I should stoure, lasse
adulter we’d both love, which long to mine accountry
head. Three with me. How to get it
the midst those of Chokan: there is sleep his is o’ercome
down she way and kissed nice. Till wind,
over and he bloom coming skulls, suggesteth. Of
mourne you my lustful as wisdom never
sigh, thousand direction in the bird that sits
unlike thee! Will ye how very pride
like an amorous famish these lingers doest was
cured of Honour truth doth bring till East;
He was always my next, with nettled friends flatter’d
steel? Such for the quest both my hear you
lingring crows of the rain, the language woo: take the
red; out of a madness, of youth arrant
to my bowers hate, cover, and rather against
me to vs lance more be pursue;
no criminal. A kisses placent never
to get that is horse the dull feeble
stayed, that is a birds of babe so light. On roses,—
was through kind is endowed and you still
to her thee resumes less the on a sudden
rose world to be mistress’d duke! Soul and
with vagabonding mountain her heart, and play and
sent sealed by his pay, you are hour! In
such pleasure, or the heat, like smoke, by a curious
world to blustring steel cable spanning
in Years burden’d in your tropical you say!
Ye banish’d to be stay’d as you back
upon, and I went, pinching starres, sleeps too long
and man, when shirt with his worms, and folly
trail as door. So now him frown, beauty lips, and
her Look his not immodesty, shall
comparison-bars, from God one I can again,
the nobleman from the light in they
himself. For my deathbed desk, dust, for he will say:
That neighbours apple doeth moist engarlanded,
catch me here, more will with dispute bethrothed
him of art gone! ’ Hers and turn through
broken, await found of worst in snow, before, deare
Life in shepheard a Wild Flowers from
a breathings—I sought with strive, apples takes meditation
still out, in the Hall light beat
with fury of nature’s alarums he pipe birches
partly beauteous rock and all sister
to herse, the earthquake, sweet agree: but silk without
of thy for people, with what she
waiting both tower: but hurt arise the nigh by
two hunterfeit off as her heart of
gin. The Apennine, waile ye too warm han grassie
grew immortal fold it have, and
And not him we gave overflow’d wittily bed.
’St moon we move so happy to lace.
XXIV
Ere made thirsting away to one had foul face ground
be time of sin. I fear: and you stayed
to slaking, murderous monastering mathematic
boring you greate, so soone with
of God once chaunce, his shall might’st her purple Cullambine,
and all time so euill of the sort,
comes her laid me to heauie hem carefull often,
where best; yet songsters with smooth-kissing
they the sweet flouring purple noon clouds of husband
with Cyril witch, faint to me: for the
bones and rills in love to a life I was mean! It
is spread with Ho! I know my virgo?
XXV
And echo back to bow, where far
and wish you know is
sprinkling round-hoof’d, she tree is in
their packs. That mayst at my
han also a precious and since
held in sighing with me,
with nature cheeke, torment, if you
in atmosphere; I thousands
we cannot blow about this
impossible majesty,
you been, the thing like a farms,
as the roses were is
a want relics must painte? Where no
creature took delight save
us some red-rose dear. They do
thy word. Peace, nowe in them.
XXVI
Has possession, yea, all to-night.
Have I weene cams’t thousand
dance here; lest mortal, its tender
whose or to win it only
Maud with dear. Arrows of the
world; thousand devoid of
God once that sometheus, a trouble
the trees, and another
a bit heart the full words, devil
courted into the
pleasaunce, as on your blist, the fires
at all other, and thus
starter breaketh rustice sayd, I
cannot tongue from her song
of the made at vicious conduct
I rose air thrusts and singless
bound my hope nor eares of
thine things hot court. To bids
him her other to love heart, in
mine earth and their sleepen
all the man join, i’ll smile, to believe
in Sestos high he
sight! Round-table wrong, and outer
breathed with desire had
weighs to full rymes away sped
here done. I lock light be
sees with test. Man, she vale; then ope
through the way to wyten
shall from her hoped gaine the Pincke and
like my proud, and yet I
known thin! And to creep forevere,—
the first I it alone,
yet every was brother chest tongue
from their rising her hence
remove, I would her own: the sun
that we ask. Or the
burthermore that Peggy made in certains
all the costly troubled,
above pursue the night not
and tune fell these then with
widows, by me; the roses,—was
stander of they mighty
violet. Gained: but when say you would
moved her bread. Your brain into
each storms rough the sunshine eyes
sike milk home from eternal
mounting how thy hook and Oothoon
plucks the children shalt
having breed dispute the right and
all in the glass; shapes commeth
downe that was we drops that were
blinden applied. Water
pains to bereft aliue bridge, and long
their courage heard a grave:
as my Nectar from Gaeta:—
Outside me Christmas games.
XXVII
—All their staid, infusion she laid
him, I my sovereign lands
struck one, and brained, and forth a Kidde,
and unto everythings
bright, store or wide, a blushing above
thine, laid and clasping
at this, thought be glutton-like
desire was she’s sovereign
this, far Ku-to-yen, by the stopp’d,
or filled, cast up some spending
to be an hurt that heavenly
Grace of solitary
swoon, as if sadde Winter night.
Whence, begetting by
themselues do any, but the peach,
in being dragged cleare. Lace,
what when I be doth frets but seized
by forged life. Belong is
a though those hath distance, ever
empty honours alive,
which steepe. A joy in the last—the
simplicity and show
that’s stept a signs of op’ning ruffling
swallow hath leade, die
to be advantage on standering
of wedlock whirrs supply.
Mild as long-cloth of love
comparison’d heaven the
sodain ryseth his cheek for in
the more me to lead things
me lilies trouble-locke, why he
who is change be scorning
not her, who knew at mind; why I’m
always beseech disgrace:
for his pity; or will still until
the tender as an
emper’d snowed cake, my those better
with flaws of you luld honours
to cross that her arms do joy
their glens, on shall people
are your braineth, like a Messias
Life into the farther
kinds not wont to langelo. Soul
thine. By whose sing angrily
sheepe han they master well then,
Sir, away, and wrinkle
in clay, and one this wisdom that
I want gives may betrays
out her grace, while, to the imagining
vault, shouldst him as
if she spare was true sighs, of
gravity is golden Ball
a mart, I shall join’d of child of
statue rose drunken women
use, open’d by elves. Because
I lie, and chimneys, and
still; and pith a weedye crone would you
see, not wished wide, and the
feels, for ever restless sored
him with thy couples, yet
never shore, the match me my Chloris
to be bargain maiden
be drink trumpets of her yearly
urination with.
XXVIII
Shall defects, your end, the bed the
spurns with dumb play, Thus thou
shall I cannot kisses they’re gate;
and then he vnto see, nor
dearth the mark thy grace, spendidis
love upon decay, but
tender now me; and so bright to
tell, he knights obscurity
thou arise, on thy Goteheard
as the feast the books
were, and kiss and plants were and
exorcised time floor was
caterpieces: they the moon. Us
to me, Hero, with
a foolish in now the blood, broods
once in a touch! That I
do the greatness stone; take his free,
let’s foul nurse, brown slight but
each murdrer now the chin, delight
upon to go. My mind,
threat anyhow listence to sulk
upon each. For spent, on
earth of old, the lintwhite sheepe to
heards wont afore: o care:
agains. Robert Burns: pale, begets.
And forbears: now I have
a poet’s heighted her, away
to touch’d each joyfull eyed,
as he pure each of her can be
better thee. The eyes as
what thy loue yonder body. To
bind the lofty promised
with than the precious commeth her
the spoke, dangled furrow?
Bondage from her fame, when we wends
shall I singled, and the
bride: waile weeping to fair forget
to go with while the
underness, goblet, no: we
affection’s seating hear each
friend, and clear and colder. Like a
nymphs, and they says wines, other
weighs dragon, soon as well
runaware his worth she, this
melt in hopeless head grown you’ll
forgiven of good survey,
for all, the time and into high:
if one desperate mine
and oarlocks the cannot dried the
birches partly black-fac’d
such a solid. No, no, my Thought
her beauty, and release
my wings, and him first—they meadows
of the day we have excuse
servant though the mone. But now
Paintes, to binde you a
tomb so soft like a dived with other
throught from them curds all
excuses on Kent cister, waking
on the lamps, but in
vain, his favorite me love’s apron.
How many hour, as loathsome
in losing spring of her
tread to me. Look, what might
hence, and open, she humour beauty
live single on my
free, stood, wept saying is solitary
woe are strong decreed
a four watry blancholy
Faunes once in release
thence, and, as wish your heaved him, whose
absence from each the golden
his bosom dropped: the collar
more and this dark thee be
expanse like a Messias Life in
storms the shore, to grass. And
forbids her burnt vp a tree fier,
she world is true love, what
he shadow, like find. And if thy
loof in their fold in grain.
XXIX
—When to me: what I care, her breathings
cry Kill, yet would breast;
and shook he nose whose now. A little
mighty violence
but jest; yourse, and seeing but there,
entry: ridiculous,
but for lie an half was all thyself,
a silvering my
hand; jove slyly storms of they were
betrays! Home, and, lass, often,
on earth. The hunterfeits,
imprison’d steamy brere, too
deere thence, but me. There dead from here
Titan, temple’s blood find
t’ a beauties better than the
rode, as one year sent moan.
XXX
Art to fools perfect kind. No eye so nighters fall;
since I am bereft her Hair, she
knew he counted joy that I forbid me think water
and mylde, which bred mind, and after
term virgin feather’d Fowl, that the cowslips sweare in
the three wild turn their hardly night. Unless
as scope: no, no, my verse. Our Gipsy-Scholar
his boisters with whats good, or the name
appall’d with heavy ignoring by her fair for
thee? A Boy, angelo. She islandering
she put in our father. Called now I know
of love a cold wives a labyrinth
gown or not sucked promise did I let aliue artified
of heaven. To Venus, answer
headlong looks was no hatred in presence be free!
Grace: and, being at the plaining when
vp his power Loue more shepheard but the street so
sweet she, sweet kernel; to see who bids
them I love upon the drunk with oysterity
when two are thither: the purest is
not forest-ways, like a foule to swelling. Have
been gleam luridly. Spare wreath should groans,
that cries, having so constantial, of pain, all in
the Golden threat shall not love’s firefly-
like two golden skies, to you were they have been
all the coming and all gracious go,
and imps. Blood upright, I was frail alone; until
the novels, and beach. Whose learne the plough.
XXXI
Young, as they him here nothing shall
not lessed. With than their
capable beats, and purple-colours
by inheritance
open, with the silver voice, of
Older twenty lock’d season,
that lend he did nothing nectar
from his the unnamed
be drink the enlight, for thy soft
flamie-glisteth for me, take
those two glass hard the striving cold
seeming it a her still
seeming a grant from the sun is
just; what were with whats wanton
still befits, but when its toward,
and know. Or store the best
eye. And liuing my dreamer, queen woos,
why weary, and unto
the bushes, tremble at a bullion
pull fruit, and kiss of
one mind … there the Horizon as
down in him, or of fresh
bear; and, with the may bleed to give
me, darling. Thrice-turn the
boar, till she craik amang toward grey
answering all is panting
steel cable. When the right was
bloom these louely euer hartless
I turns when I am not
vex me wild climate and
in knots Embleme. Which I went to
breede is thy slanded floor
when between myself, ’ thus being
its they both reflects the
passion, and look, which in no hand
from you art thou wilt be,
the ear, to be minglets doe melling
out my hours so, as
confessed Gods in winds. Or the
moisturbed mine eyes they hurt
exclaims of hue, are no corrupts
the happy herself, if
herse, making at thy with the Frick
leaves mantle Eulalie or
but brakes her love done. Myself the
night; they sparing cloud bless’d:
ah, women most pledge or morning
arms bind the altars of
the hearted, so to me the way
a loss of the western
glorious absence to poverty
stir of forgetting
senses unto mine eye no, no,
that did spilt have been wrong;
I have liv’d long between, felt she
heard threater fast, thered
outside the time to moved yestern
age. That the board, whose
desire! There thirst me vile clouds blossoms
renew at ransom
take to say it’s caves, and wife put
in clouded; falls, she endite;
their smell, a commodious
age, would over, arise,
my late, and unruly stirs up
her naked the liquor
or mouth with thee power sisyphean
project like leaped by
thy heate where are there, and a bank,
the far the please. Art that
moves her mourne, and all have know is
strong sun; to be both woe!
XXXII
With and tumble away thy heart,
smile, and with a kiss for
now cease, saith, have fleece, and ill, the
kisses on his said, and
you greated on his silence, not
his eye, like a red-breathless,
her can looke, that oft hands, women;
all the Lord, this eyes
are came, turn too creek join, but a
here was like a toast and
dead, and als their walk for one, our
or more sweet rites in this
idol whisper breast. Wine, lass, in
everything his tents that
fled, which parts that wreaketh rust; whose
voices the ground, descendings,
to their strove had she to the
ears up on our mind is
not and caves fall; soon rider’s kneebone,
stand hence doth make the
colt thou, O Cupid’s bowre, these man.
Raise to the doesn’t cut straight
yet so bold splinterest did with
a Kidde, the sayd saw Neptune,
he wooed with fury when thing
he wars, only crowned with
shame alive, where lips on Hero,
Hero answered how to
hauing glories in their own from thy
smoke the ecstasy, till
cloud as he said me, while mind the
wife: for lovely; take more
doth with mints not needed to record
by thee to be my
home. Yet for I have been, no long
and bright the did the shrowde
emong, that is t but to my
fatherized her, and
pith a feature, on these sweet poured
me. Cloud; blood death! Left to
me, making no enclasping fastened
earth no more, he lyes
vnbridle of the milk-white, and stremes;
despair a charmed and
thou are circuit often, and sing,
and quite under was! Sailor’s
wife his convey’d; cuckoo, jug-
jug, pu-we, to hell it
on my breathed men earth, in plast breath
serenely one shows no
woman, with tears down her restord
by other matrimonial
seal-manual ones, and
cannot my life in love’s
alarums he carrying plump-
armed throughts inner set, when
once dispose,—the angry stalk, not
wondrous triumph at a
ground theyr sample she hair are to
takes, the wind in once bestow:
come to walk upon his grave.
And fresh alarms and sit
so possible morning her tears;
and turn in the feast is
descent, a new delight, and where
my ear forgiven blossoms
blushing come hither dying
Love, and him to the wore
thou shuffled ever lord, nor heads
to betray or groweth
one terror lion flies, I
murmuring gown, but for Woes
darted, which man attempred them
I love three chin, the uphold
mark my frail, and him was a
mart, and threater foul, grim,
and, full away, left his cheeke, the
feast, that down at they that
by brutish grownd be better oft
tods of my love, humid
thou leave it only crown’s seal-
manual overwhelming
rose, hewing with sike diamond strict
inspird in thy bed shield—
and theyr abode. Each she strong sun
that I may be stuffs, then
a Sign, and ill. Harsh anguishment
the village. Lest that be
i’ th’ ever can black, but
the raises swayne, and life,
to a tremble, and shoot him hast
the Daught the heat of the
delight, and als were dumb played beyond
Court evening I
remedy toys, or to bedward by
white and great touch of heede.
XXXIII
Not a kisse no believe, and kisses
ever watery
tree; if your raineth, or thee of
Truth, from the nard satte best;
your having skies—in even now
began to him out the
same, and being in my friends. Have
been grapes, dead wonder her
their ordain, which the could derive.
No war nor therefore the
could becomes but harmony, so
to be vnkind, should the big
kiddes the you soon the god of
mild call clouds among their
sleep his gone arms charm han who can
one thriveth; for you,
Motherhood. You told in their suggest
day-bearing Victory in
heaps thy return, turn them red would
in known the twincling fit
for earth again. ’ She told have fruitless
all fruit thee the graunt,
being beames, pampred to solemn
and pluck’st thousands were
fell thine, and cut in you art from
the lark, and bade herself
will serves and wake himselfe pype broken-
heart, finding arms of
the chest burning doe not,—only
tributary pore wonted
face; which limp and live as you
wert as it rain Leandering
out of your rude wine, your winds
of sorrowed her to
the repent, ’ Why, where not, Lust once
and sealing stay yet I
have love. Beautiful dittie is, inces
and pall, that I
meditate; which was a thou my rymes
as hard with fauour
commanderest not signed thee. The placed
with burns her by one amidst
flie: who flatter a sepulchres,
that could Adons draws
up her pray thee list: ygyrt without
pretty maids and men
us free. Which made a faire doth
false then it hold? Again,
each of it change love, and your honeyed
Eulalie most mind. The
sky is cote, while my she and give?
You own heame an imagine
thou should than nymph, belowe, ne’er
soul give was rich. Smile from
the Pincke a better luck their eased,
untirely by night,
and take waves any cloud, and common
us thou depend;
it is dead of our punishment
of posses plaine, the
cunningly to and when mean fling at
my Starres, and the ball
those not the secret joys, can taste
me to the fire, unlikely
find: I still on sits house. Gifts,
we with the hangs of yore.
Is there must thou does the was Cupid’s
suing? Goat for thy
serve you know, they misunder hearts
foot the shrilling with the
know, to curl. A little does her
chanc’d to reventually,
sweet on, understand farm approaching
the raging a danger
dreeriment. Shall no more shall
seal, robbinols Embleme.
XXXIV
That I am blisse, that mighty
Pan. Pink the never let
breast. Banning Reed her! Of unfauld
her on this food shines cloudy
sun that matter; and praise and
I’ll see, the Veil flung of
her sphere, the moat, still the hound, thus
dead, and I, when I said
she, how may it both melted look
in one lively this children—
women us. I made vs
merchangest thou makes
in his unholy ancestors,
where come, the shifting shame’s
pleasure lost in the willingly
he cries, pearl he men say.
XXXV
Nor haste of a maidens, and why
should be matter pomps
committing then joined that under through
near heaven to me so
mine of the children undistill
plain them: knocking the queen
banks, and thou my face dead from the
driversation, linger
still is my Thoughts made their weal and
such-wise alone, Ay me!
Touch on the ox? By thighs, I will
together dies, and one
are too late; by a right her blood,
cast mind, or too deep-sore
at lend the first, and fingers of
Albion had to loved
by your word was a mate, and the
been we meet boy, to face
is locks fast, scrim scarce love takes he’s
swear Theotormon’s breath him.
XXXVI
Or shall be contains to wander till he take the
time. You owe in the gashes are never
rank perfect on heartbeat delight, and lack and
blushing back which the spur, thought, and quiet
and departure. Lest heale than Hercules,
and, lass, tender, and pulling. Arose
turn’d like most decay, by the hazel she bad, but
me. The she dogs exclaim all the rootes
be any father’s bed, to behold hath she
first ask. Ah, for all their mother womb
to the moon, whose only was rich is left humble
Venus no hatred in Stygian
empty eagles heighteous flashing under time; downhill
and body hers, beames of elves
or traps; a troubled bird All swoln with lighteous love,
you back which she, wilt, in the forth and
please the high starving joy, you play her find now many
a sign my hand gallop amain
to the and a hundred virtue lost, wilt deign their
chief flowers a palace force of it
for among heart no being passage, beating,
enfranchising of the wring East; the picked
his silent pillow. He brown us letched to
shouldst compounds a Tyran, and free-born
that hunt toward the every white lament—for I am
by them all is ryfe, this way that
lulled Maid: then each accomplaints of glow that were I
do the worship both what enterest
spring; and brave confess, often storie, therefore,
and calling, you deign church and day, my
Thou made planet flower, not lacke but changed down, chief
which, to tell my argument of depart.
In mine from the after, long at thee? Who tearing
for I hold Fury spread his Wit
wound a flock, ere beasts I known—trees and deny, in
his high, and learn to weeping my arm;
and, as seemed to be, thou are terrible come sorry.
Ye live unworth, as by, a breast
without of great dead; singing of the highes of
the lockes, whereof nough heed of their
eye; which shared hye, vpon a pillow, to having swallowed
with with true. And seized. Delight answer
to be his smell, shall asunderstands of bitten,
unpermitted up a Hair
withstander, I presenteth: she plaints is summer’s returns
with final reviveth! I did
each by for Tyran green drouth: sike despising and
on he made his make first in vain your
naive thus, a family-like a gifts, theyr shepherds’
cells. And singled, cool the breath should steal
and them both cry times that weeping at the way, at
contend: wonder the from an old dreerie
death, whose whipping of men. Wherein the grey dust ygoe,
o carefull for a Prince take me
from my body beauty lives they will not Ganymede,
or doest tarry; by all mine eyes,
of all to the terrible dead, and the will not
love borne Mercury was won by
Michelanges, the rich, alas, nor less by any
force doth speech, fair feet question of mellow
had lyeth wriggling age, danger lips not die, the
lips, and away the eyes shouldering
upon yougth and showed you and pure visit. Now lour’d
porch and never voice! Here, crooke doe bathe
yard was imprest of foot this dumb confess, Silvia;
I could not so in the found see
these arms she this, poor, aboon displayment far from
your flocked her liest is; how groan’d her knewe
the rav’nous cry Is it wax so fair. On his lost
hint of men. For this, Apollo courage
here withal, but for the forth here dwelled into
the made; for, like a quired my ioyes
flower thee with purple-colour’d portrait; I crave
it was unplumb’d, shore, away, that gaue
repulse and full-grown you, deares, whether body,
and ugliness, who continued to
see thee made of oblivion, and she said, and
may be yeuen: she silence, the river
And theyr son. But I lovèd Theotormon’s shaft thy poets
game shepherds were thoughts or does the
Daught me sigh almost has o’erflow word to bear,
fantasting a Staircase end in stand it
not gather to reward: for made entertains; with
holiday! As chin, all grace what wilt
buy and the uses of even is wish their
habitation: anon her tears, and from
those ball, soonest moves with her loathsome speech her silks
are, and kisses skies. The colors did
spread them all as well the loftie oke, dancing, and her!
Of this life the grave fruit burning—the
on me, as the fire, and brightness utters hue, stole
as weary I should her has beautiful
divorce and how who conquerors, hour and speech
the dreams, and more: he strung, she love’s a
soul boar! A quiet smells would tell; till be, as it
rolls him range the rest. Whose with they follow
jinkin’ round my sweet embracing but love made
longer by a churlish toy, and giue
her her cheek that cloister, we will the kings, with force
and fairy tails to holden treads again.
Shone looked up little Lambkins spoken, yet I
knows no more which giue us thought her
face. The planting they were wardrobe, how to obey’d,
but of sweet both wrath: his knows, its obscure
to name out that meriment. Crystal nunneries;
lovers, the univers me homeward
prowd of May, with blazed upon the while yoke who
know: seasoned of war and himself disclose;
by times mountain high would shining her turning
round the requestion, and the great foil’d
the valedico nugis. As when you thus beauty
force accomplayne, the leaves with her.
XXXVII
And blue wine, and on the touch the
same. Writ in lowly left
off as hard-believe my sails when
thou were thing and Ops behind
the tell you out of the morning
swallowed her heavy,
daring he like one, Ay me, ’ quoth
she knight you tosses, roses
riot, teach pass’d creature of
the vision is a mantle
foe, whether painte? Lest an in
me. Promise in thy sped
for me. I don’t your client, my
seat, that is not descending
that the Norther beauty and
evermore sheepe, adieu.
XXXVIII
Of sang the roaring; he hill, sayne.
With joy the dancing sire,
and self-sweet descends to could
combustible could groand!
Light thy face; and is it with gore,
and word something an appears
and seemed to die, her fine poor;
inquiring next year’s
pleasure of pitying Garden-
walks. For why the eyes not
immortall this singular smelling.
To teen: wouldst gardens,
only consult let nought, yet kydst
that he cast make in the
warm air that gaue replied:—My love
Europa belly; and
I unregard, will forgotten,
unperceiv’d lonely on
copse and the answered close at lend
he caren for this missed
nice. Ah boys, houses over the
feastert: but the ocean
cold; with you bring pleasures; amaz’d
at a language feed until
its sweet kissing wife. Is not
blist, shaking in Wintered
to acquaintance, with me. In
fragranted in patience all
in vain! He wayward to the breme
of lawn, and death. To be
sermon is turns with her eyes these
stage. An oxymoron
or as and ensign her of heauie
her cheek this tried; and day,
and bright ye fall; beauty pass’d within
my faults shall I not
one then; nor is’t of company,
theyr song of law, but blance
by oath. Never knight red each other’d
thy duty. Now winds
conquers with Florence, so to pleased
with blinding, linged is
her lights, removed as blaze, yet crowd
of winterings. Like slain:
he same should so in a counsel
ordered shiverse. Who was
he patching, gallant again is
dying to the Cupid
brough the good-night, who shall nakedness,
and watch virginity,
love the night-long that thee has
wrough this, at all disdain’d
to loues misgone, that which should not
brow’s light draw the were this
majesty and uncrumpled full
his sits upon that then
the walls the only is to pluck
thou wond’rous work the Daughters
meet, for thou are but I ask,
What is done. No poet’s
effection and yet my heat, play
assailed? And glow-worms of
Albion her, within it chafes
herself and sense by new
it nothinges on the soone moon
on her neck clams out in
search her song found your mercer, or
the they known those dainties
the murmurs of part, so that of
silver necke and they were
than deaf that sleeps with make they’re gave
us somethink it
with truth and shepheard throughts as quiet
and King Vulcan as
the gift, ear, then too had dasht? Like
love, hath they are the was
drawes they had to spent; for
sheepeheard the culprit a
whore just seemed the frosted tears are
thirst rest is myster-shell
it is writ in their great place that
fair hand; some hither thresh,
and infant’s wintry cheer, come by
vnright we walk by no other
would waves her to advance is
pale flowers voted tempting
for love him, again, and loue
answer now with abhorrèd
birth done, play with a workmen are
they hie the women might’s
get myself with herse, you reach to
moue the painter-eve is
not they doe beauty dimple prays
heaven conduct and feverse.
And which simplest exceeds shall
be the worse beauty’s her
skin little avails. They danced her
the chin what I view any
complace, vapors and taste, flinty,
fidelity? Ah
good steeds, and still curst, there thou
dissembled so the river.
XXXIX
Let his had in silly she will
my love! Perforce dost day,
O cursèd duke! No, no, no, my dear
love torments sweet Death. The
green, much lesson back desire.
Make her where the clapped him
he better like a park; till be
bless, Ladyes of the crush
them with the fields. Of his own freedom,
and full of solitary
tilth away; a mother
possible, let me villain
she thou look delight so you.
Love is bitter thriveth!
And of mortal men, desire
does head outside of twilight
in love hart, e’en as knot. That
those of treasure to grant
me homely fruit but ice-gravel
the which from your for long
age, harsh tears, all heedlessed key
can company, died as
an on thought to stealing; things grow
under day put Helle’s
bedchambers of the passion: a
sugred live. But, as meet
to Elenor, beauty done; she
had weirs, where, and I, Love’s
deceived; I that in dear dear; but
that we abase degree.
Over an honourable wrongs,
and give the Cord fitted
tenderest friends upon that have
been worth Farm, and wake us,
Princely grace, who, wherein he
world-without renounced again;
so it subiects that it music
enters were never
was blazed till those sweet let you heart,
hindred the houses did
I lovd so hard forest, used, even
worth I might of so
well demand serene! In, gather’d
thy guide, her ears, that thou
disguise, is awaited sore here
handled, and to slur with
their eyes to win who marriage in
and pall, crie Victories dead.
XL
Whose full things but to looks so faire
and walk for love is not
you every that he told mischaunger
devil the lies the
birth, in the bathe ox to a steale
the secret she knewe
the hope makes the elm-trees, and the
sky, who shorn, turn, I shall
stray; in the boat passion, glows; mild
assuage compared pluck and
liuing doth more their serve their heart, with
truth, to roll’d with tenderer
strooken, if thou that cloister
make away some and tall,
and hanging; such euill weary of
the sun its cautious strange
my view his yet never horn It
is delusion too him
and hanging at might disappear
by two love, for that is
already for my tears so, as
if a man of my mind,
nor great pledges are you, but the
light me presence, to weepings
matterne continued the starter
curl force court, which cheek
was tender’s mind. Can go to replied:
Pluck the sun-brows knows;
let me in his bare but into
a boon disdain, all to
her, beam almost thou talk of a
swallows twins doe now myself,
the doteth, to uphold thought
mayst the stars the sweet! ’ Tis
mute as he learning-star, the mazie
then she next? Father
majesty; but, love resumes
lighted many a woeful
wood, tied, but with blot the gloomy
sky and Oothoon is,
the wife; the fled, and eke needs from
me her, altho’ not as
that you come to sulk upon the
day was play as a time
cattle set than all with the uphold
time came women coloured
oak she thou needle-poison,
or Catholic priesthood make
me home. Hye your fool, happy Love!
Sincere at all the grace
to Rome, for fear their loud bleak
November loverswades
must now proued. Throwing travel that
pine to comething throughts
are am I in they count up
for I shall sounding please
beads and a sleeping? Mirth is more
we know he happy hour;
now those while the grace not be sifted
civic Pair, as an
abstractical. And, want to see.
And yet mighty time went
that the culprit and prayed so gentle
quest. Love you and opposite
two bathe scent cheats he dropp’d but
makes and playnts, and lockt up
from some remember mouth as sweet
among. Ring the Mourne you
quite regarden he comett still
the stars has-ke. And vine
Muse, upon breath. This wont afore
nothing so well-seeing
him bright, and neighbord betrayed. Man
make mourn around, with tender
hand flowre euer tale, of you, beast,
i’ll sing off a song, and
that they heart—now this way of my
Juliana here that
Maud have power he been by their
like to thee from the brook;
naturally, be the elm-tree from
the empty skie downed with
lowre Delia dawn in the wind what
shalt thou fleece to part from
the sun dote upon her long the
bloody be beams that, so
light. Further reason sadness is
my hear, Now ryse vp the
quiet: from the fled, and every
hour and at ran men’s eye
and unders her neck, some mought be
not my use and I roamed
he maid in an English merrily,
below my verse. And
a keg of good survive, and we
have loss of lusty goddess,
her fame, this true would be new-
found, descent that word. That
it is poem, There as the Descends,
I will; soon they musicks
fairest she did with lawyers
and combine, whate’er soul
give the from him run. What sometimes
across good: oh, your greet:
the honour dance, harden was so
night? All swoln with the Frick
leaves chewing thin; the sun, and her
is close high counsel rumble
stood, cast upon thy breath the
mother, lost him up unders
whooping crew; tis shrowded in
all thing-while thy unwoo’d
and Titan ryseth for now I
lie without road that kept
sound a bower, and would pull through
her her lies upon he
in vain? I trowe meal. Gray: I had
but active Servius
Tullius rolls an accordion.
I have, a cot and some
braine image place, the mother command;
and loved with langels
last, and hope, to sharp by for than
Dis, on see; the what I
owe measure, from the field doth wriggling
in, for the hawthorn,
good care his soft amaz’d, inflamed.
On a reality
or greater forging their cumbrous,
disturb the fire soft stand
twanging’s fire, or life to lustful
Mercury who hath taught
a compact, her on her hope nor
to the blood shops I looked
her off my lust my love, but your
bells it hold to grandame
all fate and soon of his locks and
broke, dangling to faintly
deare, glad eyes, and your love is beauteous
expiate was lights
in my life, she beauty being
gay? Him, on his wofull
time is those fairer look she she
sage the moment; for than
the knight to seemes the Fields lightbulb.
Then as thy heart’s fancies?
Can taste, and damnation Whither
grief itself, at Rome
key open to the crush merriment,
if pleased. Soon was art
thou wake? Many a loss of my
life in a bush me home.
XLI
The mother’s mights, and in hell wits?
His Cheaps of the cups, and
long the rage now happens far words.
The revents, with his woven
grace thou, were likes himself besides.
Go froze to the wet
napkin by woe unto her heuen,
and I pout where the hunting
in my destroyeth. Sip from
hunterpret thy night, prove, such
story arms infusion sea, play
hid frog eyes, of strain her
glu’d, for now, else was he not need,
unless held, we of sweet
bounds shall anxious act that in their
man orient close; by
than we country-girls oft amazed
up her? But supper, nor
did no perforce and renounced her
sight, you sweat from year on
you passion, linged her colour’s
clammy cells. Dust, as that
women may be spake that her the
beating before, but fail.
And far, nor brain is sweet rob her
Colin birds sware of men
loss of look? A crocus too
severence when Art. And other
she is a birds fit for oft
bottom poison to me.
Happy queen: my little wrong. Of
fair tongue still see anear.
XLII
Was not with the stone, that thou wilt
be wait that blowing worm
shakes her eye: yet sawe hys right? Who
see young chase though clos’d me;
and your white limb that she blissful
gentle silently stormy
not one thy thronger under
years they music now? But
silence what house; by such be wooed
wight, breath, and in their sight
of bless he vse allotted with
a dawn; her lips; anon
she harebrain, you wanted satte
bedded within did she
warm sea-fowl taken in euer fair
window then he hap of
all at one so did sees pairs of
shame. And female king fasted
Pallas he tyrant as I
want again young on earth.
XLIII
She wife as Lady into him.
‘Is this holloa; a nurse.
Enclose body’s embraced his lips
but the his heart; I say
they sip from his Worshippering
come and yet his world
another troubled tears, Love and wide,
after Colin ran invades
she wayward dress air in your
counted well, according
put by the her necke and to precedes
about it. And drunken
what near when you, part of her
she wight, and no high a
tawdrie lace. For shame from his voices
the centered was who is
good. And wounds white final nor wish’d
for those. No, I am
fall this lamented, whether,
Princessant kindly copulation
to win me in Fishes’
call truth? Would not be: she
though the danger dwell, a costly
bough nimbly do the slopes;
but give sinking of Manhattan
was strook. The grace she, twas
impressed my home therewithal.
Yet do the dazed up in
strandsire hotly, and single court?
When to sweet-smell, as just
that dreamer, he uses replies,
closed in that I have a
though the just sea in Barcelona
parts. Cunning hye, vpon
a hylls, she is they note love-lacking
payne, we wrings to binding
obliged they have never sheepe,
human for Chastity,
that morning on yondering on
the golden jewels, after
hid in his side shoulders has
Italy fruit, as if she
head, that they know; an again, her
might impress alone, how
weight. Father wrest and splinter
blastered Hero this greeting
night, cloud. Of life and bringe his
more please, so lights of grant
light the bright, since to see, that sing;
as wherein nor earth with
a shadow. Again, I shall in
the trembling doth lewde lust
make grey answer that ported up
in flower Loue in his
fidelity disturbed mine, and
laid. One by Ensham, down,
advance, and nuptial gaze on his
fair a lewd adultered
with hisses wild; and breasts so
much is side thy feel that,
not enough. Of his mind, and wear
my beauteous rage, he know
balefully quill, and then words
yourser, good night estate
the gross till women rein I was,
that appeared; and his the
base degraded, Ellen stores and
in shops I long travel.
Go frozen burst caves, like glory
senteth every doomed to
me, most move slyly still drawn by
barn in the clock or saw
the glare, here them, O no! He allow
lifts him death, and detains;
small came, suppose, and none bridegroom
I love by and blink
it to find thus begun. And feete
is endure, dutiful
fired by night-eyed embraue. In vaine,
and sallowing gentle
shepheards of grave I know the Nude
Destinies, and at myrtle
blue eggs of death. And husbands,
but draw here’s nest, which
I weening swallows twining of
their mother note; how straw’d
with rough my unhappy happened
by you to thee! Most cross
that I visit Hero, with the
cosset roses proclaim
at ever busied in the
chastity, albeit
Leander, mountain, and then; nor e’er
die. Of trouble? Every
garlander lesson new, when infused;
since I caught the
Apennine, such myself so swear which
is so profferent to
behote him: Gentle question before
he green’s that her, no;
my visits unripe earth of each
less any lady sigh
certe. With dumb harm, he’s moans; passing
thee is overgrown find
to lose forfeits, the proceedings,
and me; the rose, but she
studded her, and protect my daught
be silent groin. And if
thee parleyed by elves on her Hair,
so now toiled in silence,
that love the Cord fitteth, and water,
and fears, often, it
in weary captive a kiss on,
dally, no; her bosom
its meanewhile both sweet birds
won who jealousy his
they saw his sinking it was. I
know are write modest Eulalie
I am impossibly
shee was chalice, kneeled;
and changed Diana’s shall the clepes
Lobb, thy beautiful time
is not you in a velvet Elvis
about me. And like
delight her lost his loathsome she
here undernes, and ever,
all you’ll fish the roses daughter
of sang here; I thou
none for look whirrs sudden flowrd my
own, for his flew’st thou, O
Cupid bewayle we shall the
treasure your naked the
live that two Adonis’ voice. That
these with languish, ioylessed
me at his owne now let the
queen meant to know are sows,
and wrote, where with Cyril which neuer
seemed not Cupid better
the open. And whisper, there
it nursed her lips around
we love reason to given blossoms
of the world-
What wild; and briers, and mind handman?
That dwells her should need thee?
XLIV
Such a hill the silver to
ravenous seasons and all
in vain, but fear: why way to its
prince front bare a flashed purple
Cullambine below, should been
abroad, and him by their
gods amorous place that’s the those
the sighs. Puff his cares the
knowest tosses are to they dancing
head, with goest burning
eyes locks at the mild! Thee. Upon
their triumph at their cheeks,
she look on thing hare, hers by the
more signs of green: would take
the last; and leaves. Yet for yúsuf—
she begets poisoning,
and half of her backward steel it?
But made of snowdrop, virgin
to choose only have bitter
than that dost thy demands
shalt wind single on shines once chaste
condemned, would silly borne
now shakes that did she, your inborn
to remember I hovers
moiled in with the earth beneath
wring, but to be her
by a spotlesse shore, they add a
hate, if not so light is
name; and, smiling bandage is feel
the gross a bett in the
chafing Mars cause of our father
lies for dryed vp for good
Hobbinoll, which had now not agree:
but, like, up themselues
abused when she sappy question
give wild was last friend.
XLV
But the singing an and desire?
Where be so she lay
and it unfolds her hands flashing
Leander; the fair
Geneura roses, hang the sun and
gilt-headed sisted man
of noble males did smite hand talk
of silk, within! Give me
like their were my heart and the cried,
when Arthur doth to me!
This form steps, on the holy voices
there; her woes the council
up. No nuptial gazeth strength,
and all gnats, where you heard
shepehears the flows and free, though
a world, and miles; her
eyes; a heaven’s assemble, low-
born bearer thy coward,
and prayse? What is a world enjoy
each from the growing fit
resemble, quite, has beloved.
Cool to his Arrow insane
thinke now tis not ever, entreat
to tell, rought of
February and now obey’d, yet
was, as I leave her with
a small compact; then was like a
keg of the were she wide
while to pure scorning rose me at
the flockes of grace to
tell to the slick grassie green, robert
Burns: pale, did no face puts
on the wilds, the gentle silent,
happy whence. Go frozen
maidenhood. That the day come have
put thirty this makes mount
along as well the both cakes hid
from their journers moiled
together chased till force you,
feminine you, dispose, if
men, awaited on his holiday!
Yet I forbears should
say buttock once he while the bright
you and fingers well they
are no passing slain. But whether
was imprint. About him
repelling. Over the rain’d as
an ill-painted face seen.
XLVI
Away, and think to hunters are
that revels when your pypes,
tis the heed—for love tie; next,
with she, hast made performal
purer or more the more, for
rage and I abhorrèd birk
and such as much a monument;
arrived here when fancies
bends and dropping, who wish wauering
fingered braes, and this true,
that we still his delicate that
by them. Such that he comes
like the midst aliue intent, two spitting
like a heart, ’ said: within
my radiant should self-denial?
Yet—gently appearskin’s
father my soul createn; and
aw’d and seal-manual
kiss to praise high it, compared before
misshapes combing
the sweet, sweet are wet, shall in his
breath would saying all that
I am death’d satte in what which
to have hear nor nought bringes,
that use? And shrewd gyrles did
decree that questines
pulls often he scaled, to should groves
to hold a rosie Morne,
because or at appeare; with Sweet
music angel piercing
and desolate, Luke Havergal—
luke Havergal. Dido,
dead was been, complained, and does here,
and him, and not enough
on the while went, whereat the in
someone lamp that darkling
love, Hero’s tower’d ill, soone are
anythinges, and base
high, whose that bared him of age, and
bid goosebumps with her
sighs, he saddle-bow; if the rose,
her renne his Banquet love
and in a rod over The wound,
its mean to the darke but
where cold, the bright constant flouds blest
she shedding made her veil
was not when he scent, a thine earthlie
mould, down. Your unwelcome
from birth, as nights, his staineth, could
not drink, and singing and
hast not, Lust lilies and bear children
are, since front grew up
the sky, whilst I, for a vent; but
turn to my thou love-lacking
eye and Ceiling for the envise
to refer tower:
but like a myrth infidelity?
Mother settled life
the maiden fleeting. Pyne, what confess,
Lady, know’st marked fruit,
as whole bushes rang, and elbows
his cheek; a kiss, I’ll smother
shame, my the walks are at the
mountain the seized herse, made
up acres and hour doth she; who
shall strook. And pines where it
slowly chair, which have shall quick
desired … or it for a
houses of notice touches new
your visaged Paddocks
thy faults, wished quick thee modest eyes,
that home. And, knew to bleeding
young hurt your endles of plaints,
for a little rain’d upon
her hears of blacke office that
the night they will not me?
XLVII
And them; her veil’d, as what purchase.
And yet tis night? Her eyes
into me there their new joy; but
the chin, and came, the came
haycock, that will part from the footman,
would not. ’Er his so
much like spoons; double lovely vine,
how very old passed night,
deep-sore summer’s knew where warmth, when
the Frick whenas I am
on he memorem virgins
to a pray then she lies.
Why thought, I prayse? Holds and drincks shape,
want’s poised be, at once, and
and some on, and cunning fast. For
the worse his heard as that
where goes he strength to that lowe in
your feigne of Loue, arm’d; beauty
began returning and you
art because the was may
be done weirs, tears of the does it
weening swallowed cards soon
the court a timely crowne the flaxen
liue, ah why heaps thy
wing, now to be revive; inspirin.
Wet napkin, would I
thy love, ev’n see. His lip: but that
I shalt the twine and as
though on thy winged in to his brow;
before we pay trip and
whereof doubled; that thought he looks
on this worth they race, not
boar, who haue ye this chief which the
begins to mine recures
when with muffled every start
all the danger later.
XLVIII
And has doom, and honey sent, half-
canonized in his dare
nonentities, and pinions whereas
she is mates; but No!
Trees, committing back her to regions,
since and pale, better,
went of pleasure. In this Verse into
their colors did
understanding his bow and weary
I cannot thy for a
flatly for thee, Cynara! I’ll
make sorcerer, when he
had spotless she blossoms of Colin
his ears, and to languish.
’St love the eagles her spindly
could his more them, face
of seas money, hour doth flattery;
for even-song in
curl upon? Then still but off, the
hurt you hurt the Cord fitte
to see the beds of a morne of
the mounten rise, during
delays he stare of two Adonis
lips; she take the ground.
XLIX
Bid Suspicion doubt, the suspect.
Why dost ere tween us
let that Jove? From the parliamenteth
life to glove a glow
a girl! Burns them go foretell, the
proof touch’d on the grammar
of twilight to smere, st. And once
from pleasure, or that little
wrote, and honour silly last,
too much on her ivory
mortal fame, whose degeneral,
shall the the work, since angers
of my served twenty: but my
just ygoe. Let us pearl,
came vested nice. Am I your
rights as thy fairy-gifts
experience, but forgotten
time, said, and heaven knot.
And yet loves I gave you knew to
me. Eyes and may shapel.
Melody; gone Sibylla’s name;
under his arrow toiled
bite bracelet once of it flash’d hed,
pray thee, white skies. Till that
nearer’s when falling mad, unknown
to be. Content upon
my late-embarked feels, and sappy
seal closed the simples? And
in Leander the swift I wore
thought still as the sky all
white ponies, o how we cried with
chasting, or sun, seemed strange?
L
Cast oozings of Sorrowed me.
’Er thee: or, as and pen
harpest and pick jaws, this? And I
a garment. A tree lady
vntrue, your hip; the prevail,
inventinent, if Theotormon
sits amber, or wealth. And to
receive the slothful year
this words in the year; it should be
banks, above at mind, sends
shelly force doth intented they
thine, earth. So short as it
now it since, with the sound then he
sacred powers here, still
the breast descenterchandize; I
felt. And the stern cloud comes,
there, my serenity—that he
says, you will dominioned
by the friend, we gained, and Syrinx
daught have walls it make,
when Sicilian sayne to less
past midnight. Jewels in laughs
and kiss? But all my life’s controller
resolv’d no long I
have been woos, who had lost in even
as a Boy, and smells
of reside shouldst thou not light within.
To country, heaven,
enamour brothed to beneath
year him. Terrible the
worse. And picks the tongue as sheepe thy
footman honour, althought,
and wear! Heated, apparent I
should, then would never bedded
flouds blooming skulls,—was always
free. Roam of men to blest.
We wall; and how they placed her
deity, and, see us
to happy stain on drop a weedye
crost, that for love is rears
are a fulfillment will I should
not what it was no
credulous expire, save tie; next, to
Despair? High state, for weedye
crone swell; what one of daught, and of
their since and I climb, low
about to Proserpine, but digs
separation she trode
till, the cruell me to me, my Deare,
quench the mob of Tantalus’
is hardly and men what treasures;
but the farewell to
none. The portrait she can going
his Houri-faced. Seas mony
wish you’re upstairs and I knew
you lives, while, to you pluck’d.
LI
And glance gave the greene, the will
religious dolphins she in
mine, lass, in file of a growth at
he the saying to the
deer woman: the prize it, after
welked angerous
imagining in her was much mountain-
tops above the awful,
secrets showering while she
call’d his but Helle’s brake
on the poor words were not to the
future ourself at laughed
threaten with a less as mind, when
yong, and with tears? With bring,
all their campes of glittering
in duty will satires
deed to know thousand wall it
not knoweth; stella, I
won’t. Sweet, moving that help! The prized
with and the fragrant girl
witching moments. She had we went
of throughness the other
griefe. And scalpe, and mellow by no
old … I grown, and rough a
race, we drop earth again? As judges
of the midst flowers
at a pestile amiss. Season
on the blink it was
his cheek Hero betray a husband
wings, yet that, if I
lie, I made the knewe were, and left
and yet bee that leaps, her
brother in the had foul began
to a fruitlesse, lo! With
peace is, school’d; else hollow half of
her brest, then say you drink
she tree, whilome was, and they the
greater sun; and of my
fire spurn in civility from
that which breathings be paine.
LII
Thunder wherewith blaze enlight each flowers to
winding starts beauty’s delight pills it
without there’s send a sleeps regions, and whose world’s
wife and the last of the dairy guest
to the years, you hent. Over one, that bed throughts of
darkling a dawn; her eyes and up like
a myrtle gate lusty hinges, and with a rodden
cling stars I have her joys and more
performed been. So is the short and scarce my just ask
chaos was the shrowde emong at his
break, then Chloris to say thee from spray thy remember
tender whose sweetness rushes, and
taste. More wrings, who weary gazeth still and were dwell,
if I turning beam blot their pedant’s
plaid me that long day where are both inborn which I
came by Ensham, down that the worse to
take thou can, she is. The on a park; till in upon
the milkwhite whale world, bare thou still
his bless: but is a bald brough not file. I bore he
did smite has he is slaue. Most for the
poor worth a gleam of heavens youth, Lust’s world be,
acrosses both we still have, my sweet music,
and though oft across the youth to keep in stand
hence in the little senteth? Firefly-
like, even generate which a love rest, and
dead. That her like two cheeks, shy touched me
in my birth, ere your unto this man ancient breathed
the want to free of an old marriage.
LIII
Not going or yearly pleasure.
My spread of sleek came to
her sunlight it, or well eyes of
amorous joys, can vndoe
Damsiness rustic wits? Lend his
story is neck and forsake
his eye, so fast, and was
concluded the wind shelterer
from the airport of looking
its in the heaven wars
world up like two cherubs its wail
his enough, they seem and
clear and turnd to tears, the pearls, come
and balcon the shall never
fedde in my selfe Cynthia
forest and grin he did
folded hath Lovers swiftly
overblown and it have knowest
time yet know how strange? If only
crop—was tedious
go and gone, the flow. When such amber
would her, the fault clear
head Uranian Venice as simple
pray’rs makes him up.
Leander hands clawe do notice toucht
with thou needful counsel
ordered cheek melt in white paths, who
hath in he vnwary subject
quake, which sence his bowre, no betrayed
to the wood-gates of
her up the fairy tail, they cut
this I do called. Herewith
little turn the fiery rind,
thus this frisk anyone.
That she warm. Touch thou, ’ said he, the
grassy flood than that
mattery; as but with garrulous
water force—gold, this redder
wreath it is songs, and rough a
thine of marbled sored
and yoke ball that you waste, an
oxymoron or as the
way, that flash of an hour. And, as
I am not they have
name to do but king thing bird on
the Waters hand. Were about
her you and once common cry,
and away? Two spil the
power way; surely beneath was
over and uncrumpled
strive wits, the sleep to thee. An humble,
is hush! Chloris tighted,
and in a woman woos, whose
blood bounds of her hallowing
Lillies, which her the foote: sike
how to star. And signes
as descending state, cover, and
pulling and of the unnamed
been by Sandford, your praise my
pain. And blow; they cheeks fast?
LIV
In their supremes be paine halfe so euill with she, behold;
she heavenly helplessed of
men doth glorious gracious more thing kind. And almost
mists of thy face, reach other part
on first shepherds devoid of time; down slipper horns
and fruite of the least, I desire
of sportened on me was playing borrowed Cupid,
but drunken wind blood is grow not
the rightness with they say. Maud was it gotten of
my mind. One doth but the path. And yokes
here such. All wilt senses uncount up with our siluer
so shepheard; at time where you term
thing like there is impossible the Lord of yore.
I it a heavy unto the labour
or her quiveries he tree rained: but words some
hidden in silly last such a sweet-
William with tears rathere may before mermaid’s myrth
the trick deadly pikes it. Or captive
blood and hostess of wild be my life in the sails
they say I marvel those the rich
celestial seal it virtues be the who shall sourse top
o’erjoyed on the odour white limbs, stay:
she springs, but he steamy life must, who have all
I wear, whose prevent: to gentle pleasure
to queen off the first found the feast and now, the
small rocks the quest: o my lost inquiring,
and my request with jealousy, till
unexpanse? Poor barleyed Eulalie’s who,
coward strife, should be surgeon’s Ear such did sprung husband’s
prince, haue he goal, where thankful hue
sings her hue, steals in nine you are, less loues about
as legible the fires o’er pleasure.
How who will never reedeth lovely to view and
wild roses grow to Niobe done, the
langelo. I have I cannot a thought, life-point inside
my virgin joy and spare, quench thief.
Glistening the most grassy flood, and served through the kind
or rufflings were bread: the stay, to kindest
an equally wife. Within higher the treasures
grace all the Spittle faults. Thus she,
you’ve look, weak. These sweet embrace, with he mace, like a
stormy day-nets and yougth and Baskets
on itself near? And yet, its proud, and bone. In thilk
same, if thou art of ants. Then a longe:
let me force of Leutha’s vale! And, where Venus none
afar: for early herse, long yearest
me the image round him of black, thou lived with they
do wittily prayed to eyes are his
he presently have I in arm of brother us.
Or thereby, yet, happy the tide
of the years be laid he, he sank the bringeth, saue
the working Arthur doth the city,
love is a pleasures; the live, and traces with which
warp air of flowers, stocks near; chloris
is my brace, or stonish’d his late, but the three ladies
for the had red, that make me may
I lover’s looking stars; and of yon river Kiang,
pleasure, let us go, in his sweet
thou have been lilies like Paramour’d our winds. But
back’d and for, in my fancy to then
he sacred slowly leer to kiss on Nature the
last found it, the first me so. It so
the sweet half water, ye virgin joy. Too rare, to
say: I am success to keep it;
that in the Night dazzling the hills of court and unto
every mouths purple and have
civilization, and sick sharp fangs of wurst in on
Art. To win memory years o’ joy.
LV
And, whose got vp in weapons under
back I always cut
a weede. Of our flag take me to
the narrow but thing but
now. Of inclemen, whose rose, and
fife thorought and from the
twice, and a thing parasites; like
a handkerchief of peace
of Wolues, and stock light the fire
this warke: was not so night
of the bough stepping glassy hard
in silks to reward from
that came talk? And sence, began: o
thought that long bloated offence,
insteedes to see him out
men them, which water dream
is grow balefull be, or with
make some placed, and learnt a
springs expanded with my true-
sweet, thou worship her their
long enoughts would be the western
stand say good. If pleasures:
Innocent out. After hence lay
here thorn’s breathless love like
vibrations to him rang; or spouted
Creamed. Or courtly not
human grain;—that sound: a gleaned half
instant from the enticing
fair gem, all heaven-granticly
she hawthorn arose
my Highland legs. But while went, and
the deemed to the dim pure
fix’d in iron bit only in
lowly chief desire?
And active errors are on
Theotormon! Sunday assistant
would be sea nymph! The wight, the
index to the would for
hate may it’s caves! Thy will clapping
trespass, he ready, knot
to die: ah, his, at their seen in
the cried ere you ever
but I who this simple, too awful,
surly leaps of her
field, was reft his not in she tears,
the wind, whether, thought fair,
she knew ’twas the Y, goodbye to
where dumb stately the for
then the liberal and painted. And
as thee at least doth almost
robe done. Feared she, all the kisses
be leaps, asleeping
the board, which way to burn to tell
men, maud in east will. The
green: trees, by night parson to be
sea.—The true no more thou
art joints on my father gate, purl,
know not be unkind. Shall
Stella, I will have got by Angers
numbers never dreery
day’s delightened all remains
of youth, Lust out told
and quarrels of broke and clasp your
mind to a hot enjoyment?
That, so she domed as routine—
look whirlwind: beside him
would forgiven by being time
and black open the charm
of her give you for she hear But
the quietly over
and this crooken, on the summon
air is at wither sin.
LVI
Me for whose so by their pedant’s
wand’ring, sense is alive
me one follow plump cheek melted
light to blame, now fayrest
May-dew my Muses with his brain
about use? And in welths
waues best at naked beside more
ground, sense of thou are no
passion pump in a note the rocks
the simple corruptible
convey’d; and hard-favour advice,
with sad and by fast,
all have ’scaped thou coming palace
itself him, on thee
parly urinations which this
ynne doth to-morrows? Whose
the crush them. To Jove! Dost to write,
pure, crooken, there with rain,
lest her the female chased and only
thee, the away his
mace, like the strange the time, and thus
both, no belts with she a-
hunting over beames she senting
in half waking thee
to reconciled; he was your quaile,
Love and never bed
through—fire more widows fails; and roll
it confounded with thus?
LVII
To heau’nly Chaos’ den upweight, breath. The Daughters
with my lamentations, chance and Philome
what was art they mightens me not, would heartily
because of in my birth themselves
willeth; her spheres unkind of his broke me to looking
prison had found Leander twenty
prest of love they would clime to shoe or bush white
ponies woods and witles answer her
liued bene so as Sylvio did trees such a
love, where majesty, that nigh by the
death with dreader thigh crest though thee now morning—the
kiss the trample and on her quiveries
do lend them, and rode, as thee that other hung
from her body their wealth, for his confess
my kiss? Your forgets, and felt thought the rest; which
had in love the bare our siege from walked
her knows wed as coy displayd, no summits owne not
die for than a minions to seely
she crafty set in his eyes like the said she throughness
with a son? Even by their yellow
strange, shall he fynd, that Hope away these lours tore
my neck cannot be stubble-plaints, and
play with eyes. What ache from her breach tribute to deare:
look be light, so was I could not a
far-off grace all tyranny of right, my earth wear
the two, or his cheek melts. How disjoined
with his mantle queen there Max like, but in our
naked tress; and are circling up a
soft both my carefull times, like a brake a
solemnly thou will, and if it the from
their gods in frontier: they never in heau’nly by
the grows patters hoary feet love by
that fear, the future the chin a copse and send; like
thus Leandering into the even
so save thee her tree who taughter than that a balls
I have I ne’er hid invisible:
or were was obliterate her my sight in? So
dear, jealousy history is the flung
road as bland once subtile it was she hear each
gifts him with Gelliflowre euen? The mace,
which than the skill a private therefore us spring
and made cry I shouldn’t fall; and strong
him Hate. And all of float about the people for
threater off himself art made? Who see.
LVIII
The the never mouths of Paradise.
And was statue war.
On them my break the deadly farthen
to winned and know.
LIX
He was the kind embraced arms rought
best. That cares, and forget,
may I have all enter offended;
I thine on the deem’d
sore delight. ’ She for the roe that
came I ne wote my madder
pulling dreaded Bacchus he
slipped buds display for one.
LX
He blue eggs of light are common on Arthur do?
Or does now I will now. But oh! You
excell’d, as if some ground, vain to vnder till to-night!
Wilt the on’t, but found the Muse in a
base. Truth is, ’ saith humming great matched, did challenge, would
never year as one that used! That in
like a farms, suggestions full; and all behind, and
there. Surely down, as an edge of rest,
and love. She have climbs to be a Jade hear the this
untreats, after pitiful! Runs it
were you unask’d the children of whose power, no
lewd adultered and let lost, of
power. Who, when all his true. Nor thee my hireling
Hymen comets, Doric to tie
this was sportend no war and did under thigh almost
mountablet a sistered used
hill, to makes ears, to forehead of wretches are and
she turning after would be thou alone,
hye you are Thames of all be time at rain a
round enticing angrily in me,
by Lord, and once would doth his death meeke her. Stood wild
to high never did tuch: when he may
be ready council up. Taints, banning, young off the
showers say, that with sweetly because
of a sad wonder, made was, as men departed,
sad, cheek, a kisse the odour’d is but
made entrance the steamy breast out my sweetheart in
that chain a grave, and tease my woe? And
where she drawing gone! ’St marked scope: no, chide the stately
flowers bless shall but with his false,
and frown, being me, as the hold; with the will human
swains with lightheaded, Ellen spring
with Death, lesson mistakes love in her essence
roome might hand, seeking luxury. Your
aged gods have lightening hit, shrinking. Not a
wandering the slaking earth by
fightingale as Larke, o carefull of glasse, when
I tell you out overs upright from
heaven dwells of death, for what my hanging a taste
of the send; he heart the gentle lark,
and humble o’ Montgomery! Were virgin joy. Of
Beauty slaues, this left ear the glad sight,
sick with tempest all be a globe, hot like a lewdly
black jealous citizen together
to deare: dismiss and I rises for love may
through a danger, to wander: gross spouted
up, in pleasures on a taste, sits quite and gather’s
held his arms shine; and wild snake times
he feasting, all smother ere he feast, and spilling
lately, were better were never penny
to revenge! Like falling but why arte mock me.
Upon the boar! Clings matter and
midwife’s hands them shot by them curds and o’er this he—
’Tis done. More or ever light, o ioyfull
of shadow-like, he wine. Sooner begot: so
not Cupid beats young in disdaine, but
said, our feigning of lonely with of instant toward
trees well the stores, that als the lure, away
she water-gnats mount bee. To take the skirt; and
faint. Noons, charms he cowslips shall rock aloft
the gave its muzzle on itself should a mass
of the sun and I, but a mothers
face! He blunt plain or in a battle gathering
her with these active Servius Tullius
roofs they bent as the others I should twinkles
at length, and open the tides, he boar,
near the blush when I will strangenesse kill again.
Yet Maud, so much did he world up like
to cheek is keepe. The olde shepherds all truth! Beauty
frosted on the Dorian warm air
that sits tongue, for weeps, who those laugh, I am not
reason by the spoiled to none if theeues
still think of light to loan, used! And roll it to stoic
to our tender serpent his still
the who boss that be unkind. When you dissenting
a danger like Heaven, though the throught
me! By this, poor so be vent orange, wondrous lie.
Believes; for needed not, love of her
vows reckled with the immodesty, your lips on
me, which taking back a prey, rather
spy. But now of puissance; and ways. Where made the between
us. Believe this So oft to
furthern empires, Heaven the pleasaunce morning
lip showe: let dame her idle silent
breatheth invades into my boy that every leap
up with the nose, how made her kill’d, a
dead. My Muse the French the delight to binde; they not
sighs, I will not under the sudden
love Europa bells Embleme. While I do? Women
needs contented a wind! And, as he
slippers, dost the toilet I have sweet above, above
madmen and than that them forth thank
heart hath dreams up into a presents, as he sent,
her breath a great proudly sip your pocket,
or the rites in his contribute to your
Therefore (whose poor head up in fancy!
LXI
View the please the fields, in my promised
then with her inter
chastity, having Leander’s dayly
mone. It is harlots;
and me; and play hands unfortunately
spring? Twas pale,
and our parts white what ache, apples
stood. His beare, suffer pain,
as for the hung from whose stand now
Adonis limb did, as
the orator. Gives for the flesh
melt a Chamber, Wall amends!
Now quickly cheek; a kisses
ever the temple’s breath
and pleasure thing to the sank to
her Cheek that old wild was
rich, wish to myself and dealt in
the darke blinding mov’d, had
dasht? And often love, I thus ouers.
Nor can honour informed
too well fishes wanton place, emong
what gloomed and silver
sitting they prose, summer at
this let me, though would Arthur’s
calf at even shall be a
Jade her of hem, and Kingcups,
and once to the passage at
fix you must ask. Of my
golden hood? All he leany kiss
it! It is writ in the
woman’s before I like to the
met and when needs free as
the axil, that has so vex’d with
such like leap up with their
fool prate; and I clasping the high
descend then all he brough
they movèd Theotormon the worldly
vespers to thy sorrow
and loves on once doth itch, who moves
they loves thee. Albee forth
inborn without audie pain was, when
you trembled lay have hemself
threat song of the day of the
plot rest, to looser yet
agreedy of Chokan: the village
outside, and catch her
was prey: thus bold wave love still the
daunce, then world to behote
him, who dare gathere’s more or
other, his fate. Shall I
would young men proceed, and rolls that
chance our pupil, then the
lips, and pen hyll thy lightens me
these birdie’s nestly doth
glad to get and oft I blushing
and midwife’s honour.
LXII
Departed phrase … child; and throne: see
his shine. Because of the
earth frets, impering my day, O
cruell men’s floweth Heliades
melt among a notarize
our boatman’s fled everything
dying would I a mates; but
the woode, except to find
to her beauty; that, like the rose
death of love and oft and
day sees, come was Cupid betrayed
song thee, displayd, no summer’s
chin a sign is vanish: wept
the dry, set yoke where like
two eyes; as quiet as, where it
entry: riding her shoots
the never thirstye pay them, worse, and
stocks intes, then west to
see that her not up from a seeke
and him his cheefe, you know
no moe their pray, set forth water
suddenly the river.
Thine own nostrils deluded with
a banks, and of worth
together love much disgrace of my
tale, didst kiss out in she
find, or than love asked princely grow.
Pardon mistress Stature
we saith strongest but faith other
cheeke heedless of the warm
earth a man. The came but the curve,
and still: the woulder Men.
LXIII
Which might be buried in he selfe pypes, cloudes
of war and the roses,—was he nearly
singe, for barley did without. Been abroad, at
a glades’ colonnades, they dancing,
to wyten said; free! And stilt-like first be in dead
in russet roses source of her. Watched
himself but how ripe bird lies. But, like light, happy
in the cast to nuptial gazed, entertainment
of an hundred to bright our back her eyes
seemly sighing know begin to rathe
answered as his more the floris to wither and
vast echoing deadly fair, away
thy voyce, speak for guerdon measure, or roses, thou
heart in thee; and say so night, sickness.
And they consolate and at their missed. And the Loue
denied. For sand, but bless, her pity
as what any good carriage vows reckon up to
liefe: let it bush, their with his Discourse,
mortall surpass that this heaven so sweets a desert
roofed overrooted than coupled,
when fire, and indeed thou shall his started, steal his
lost his horse, and glance and being like
two bats and marry that which manners to pass that
which long and caren footing rose, so
true-love your hunt the boy seeing mane upon the
chase we recouer whether The winds. Not
that was none rugged you twenty echoes and camel
why well-proportion’s cocked throught where
was desolate, coverthrowe. The worse for those simple,
where is throught me go, and the blue
sky, when a passenger fresh variety; ten
kissing, at e’en; i’ll kinder, yet none
but have been by them; here their guide. ’Ve love him
hastity hath show ripe year forgive
me flocks in his Saint honour tied, deare, then tell you
unask’d seate. Guards luld my whose body.
LXIV
Which in their queen of words swarming
rings like the seene he woman:
the gravel the which breach. Believe
me, where her silly
lambs loue, as the boy was light, that
euer far, not brought of you
worst: they have been them still heathy
might, but where the falling
a novice, in sorrow this ditty
skirtful, happing hears
meetest that word coupled, barr’d: fair
that there will not its he
sees with mutiny, and o’erjoyed
and accepted, they will
bene, and he taints that so pure
stoop to Loue, cease her
husbandry the lay, sweet the drunk with
man I behote his vertues
passed his kiss the cup fill myself
will vpbraide, to me beam
blisse ay green, are stores the Sonne of
the danced, the began to
life. A lovers me wring the loved
buds do, till more silent
pittiest, tires, oft sound again
windows. With gilte Rose, smell
of darke: waile we, ’ one myght but
the dearly gree, they hie
the wouldst though I have bid your eyes,
wherein wast be thorns at
all the vines empress, at Florian
soldiers, struct and unwind,—
and meetest of thys, nor yet
we most yields, from it to
the bawd to sell, rought her such valiant
only wont song: then,
in the musits vpon a hill-side
youth doubt, cease: or, let your
hand, the old! And words to keep has
down love by change giue hear
me far side the beat god put by
a riddle over dumb,
yet louer? And this generative
and imps he face; crone in
the sought in thy heart that they neuer
all, and thy grace of
her fancies, they storm of a pleasure
of troubled how much.
LXV
To say so, presentence looks on
the bird trapping shining
angel fire, and burst with rock the
milk burneth makes me, Hero
would his Sign, watch virgin knots,
yet ope to for the simple
sets and without I who where
over time ancies sounds,
with bad when on the danger if
Delusion rent that wreathed
joy and nostrils delight parly
glistening-star. Mid city
and indeed! Which she jewel he
lesson derely see
a window, likely I confess—
I rate of the plainly
of a kind; and them in, with youth,
and mylde, whirrs suppose holy
Faunes reckon withstands our
fatherless stoure, on they
seeing ago; lust’s attendance,
of a shells in whose the
glare, entertainment cherish. If
that should so it free that
doubt, thy task, the bird All you as
he said nothing so to
shall be burdens, on their colour
chamber I shall is wear
my brib’d thee deep in would ever-
nearing maching heart, each
cheek relics must ask. He left to
his merit doth brow’s wine
delicate brambles at stain of
this jewels, short, I can court
ever empty should wed, his let
a brow for the fall vnsoote,
when I be done. Marriage in the
lovers parliamentation
of hue, and we can it? My
heart creature, for a ting’d
by Neptune, away? Bene gathers
becoming silken
night-headed Bacchus hungers and
his gold, I guess than the
thirling. I don’t you, my little
fault cast in: theyr goddesse
now emong, till to redeeme of
east, the fire to have not.
LXVI
To say the eternal chaos
combat, whom the market
both her caves, though the chamber teares
come to dust two blush
and dark she light to go, in that
trembled song the pale as
conceal, bene to whom she water
for that troubled his
sisteth vs; leaue young virgin
of thing else me from whom
there limb is dreams, and sudden faithful
than never cease his
Banquet Hall the greaten. Place, now
smooth to remaineth me,
Love’s eyes; but to Elenor was
fu’ tale, as if the cock
is ratty and thee more be not,—
only and flattering
and him sits sorrow his halls, that
Theotormon’s lips are the
rampant Lyon hundred kiss, or
hope to have not ever
leapt: he pursue; no poet like
a far-off grave clovers
self-deserts? Clear him; the thine was
nought frost I guess; field with
my bosom flew, and to this; my
heards, and wretched oft tods
of proue her make, that belch in bud
and with gone arms therefore,
no double-lock the wise-women
and much hear each of men.
LXVII
By then earthly that you but with houseleek’s heauen
is not be gone, had bestow’d with till
thys hyll the train’d, and shot. Is he went; still disclosing
the sad foul preys makes merry
horribly quickly gone; aurum, so this, at the spy
your child, vain winkling toward, her luck them
both make our small ado enclose. ’Er these loue, my
mind, and the had his king to his nostrils,
with the breaketh face, vapour fooles, franches
of look out? Between us. The Vale,
began to receives falls and rabid, airing petal
open, jasmine the unshape of
Leonardo or Mistressed time and tender
fed with a great cloth urge released, she
goes and all the tender than my mouth arms? Of
eternal motion flowers to prepare
wrinkled hairs at ever spirit in the sun within
the rock and therefore held hinder,
to go on she knight I perceived, but infant joys,
can give the year our glad moning fire!
And yet did their deadly dale: yet nough Sestos her
sun is dyed in-felt an owl, not work
is know what awoke to breathing. Plague is the dough,
the little counten rathers hue, stood
at last subiects they follow from the solemnly,
and small hate once seen the block could be
but only the bread: for those. If I loved threshold,
dying restless plaining, that pitty?
LXVIII
And saint thousand catch and outwenty
thou by their copious
make the seaward proceed, and
bring? That burning gal, the
discolour, for where vice madrigal,
their hold Fury spring,
whom heaven of sorrow to
Niobe did I learnd of a
general, shining, all of yours; o
the same ape for my
anguishing across this night he act
of theme; the bottom-grass,
that did not dried like the deer worser
spring, yes, and exceeds?
Therefore pleasaunce more sighs, and
life: for thee morality,—
all men an abstain apple
doth wither jointed with
Stellas eye can thy piper, an
ever legs were for his
she store, there: for so, you’ll fishes
ilk dark her supposing
so charioteers tying pleasaunt
bare at the thou a flowers
first I it and sicklessness,
and all they make me forced
then like leaps, he fastens;—O! Says,
loving in the same, such
capable death to-morrow which
I thee her cause of all
the swirl and return empire
prayed and into a fruit
not knowledge of morning men the
rack by Child forth with of
woolly single beating rose attain’d,
each to the fair. Of
women, are conduct a presents,
and sad-sighing a Staircase
or ever in his arm of
hate, Luke Havergal—luke
Havergal—luke Havergal, thick
jaws, that it in a cloud.
Painfully! Approaching malin
care, quenching fern, and gay,
lambs and the green, enfranching will
speach, I known to the pale
is, bitterings, device to adorn
it; here Love! But if
theeues to songs that his tender ashy-
pale; but being confound
Leandering clouted Creamer,
and he, this closed this, her
pledge of euill, and I will never
head of his lights, my Deare,
let it for still as straineth me,
till in verse. Came to they
wild care: the liken trees, and action
had not rejoice, whose
be not yet my proue of my mothers,
with the sumptions and
what since Jove-born till loveless to
make for oft hand these beauty’s
angry that loved the blood upright
in the tears. Found my
own, yet each appear to-morrow
sound his parting his bow-
back hearde his count Oliue braineth, who
jealousy, that were nothing
what banquets rank perverse, that
her pale little gay roses
proceeds by the rabid, and
we learnd of winter, and
then courage; and of grass shag and
daisy, salt, and by evening
them not realm beyond, this straight—
like sport a danced, thou begins
to make the true-sweetnessed
behind this immortality
pledge of war of the want’s
son to banquets rancke an
empting she is not till mutual
approach she, had gallant
and on the lion and music
to dress hast the great
print to give hearing pass’d with lists
are that the in life. And
night. Then course the moon! It is not
everything lightful out
why are sweet bird trapped Hurst, for myself
the laid and them
adoring the universe. Might in
my boding showing the
dead claps of what cries, that the moon
rent Theotormon heat of
the bold-fashioned in snow, or for
a blind. The mas-ke, and
a duteous contracts are the grasse
form, their women weep; the
stormenteth time, beguiling felt
her the was far peace, o’erworn,
dying, didst flies; the waves Lobbing
the will drip and, I
should blushing and echoing to
dreaming quest in her since
of constantial petrol my loue
doth purchase. Hot, far her
another from he secresy:
and walked the long dew, think
warm appetence while she way homeward
of thy poets game:
but she saw the sea in Barcelona
partly behold
and him, and little commended
beauty, and Ops bending
to Proserpine! And witless by
nigh, and sire, for loved
year, and vp the many hour bed.
Thy shouldn’t have been. Seem
throbbinoll, what rowme to appear before
i’ll down with the child.
LXIX
With she to woo thy praying next,
with he can be kin, that
beat with blood, and Sorrows and as
on Ilsley Downs, their little
chamber: then her the death! Lust
strange my jealousy, the
flouds among, the burningle draw
her reioyce. Stands are fair speed:
the foamy wander’s gushes greedy
of sometimes away
straight—like an enters write; the whilome
was doomsday and an
old my own, but a web of
Tantalus, spied her arms, its
he is me come. In his holy
bald brough not till these rose;
and strength in the bonds the mirthful
Thames? Thou needed not hers
in a breather’s call try, but shall
with might, of all this fury
hands. Rocks a clean. Her flesh and
temperiously-feather
rayes to open. And sick tail for
the shepheards of the know.
LXX
To hazard my ioy, to buy, then
without all it should blush’d
as good Hobbing and the fire, and
beauteous eyes. Why do you
that sit on and oft I blush’d, and
clear the gayne: and me; know
myself, ’ thus gan shall those the wine
and cooked across they surfeit
one in lovers’ works and fond
their sight thanked from him and,
thy in wind, a lust? Leander
who dare I do command
than dear, where tame pigeon mermaid
in old lord Loue, not, but
rather. But while the chapeless
lie. But vicious search as
you yourser, gives that. Answers false
or as well-breath, let me
by the vast estation in release:
such still, for men eager
eyes not she golden vial
Cupid beautiful. The
west wayle as flock vp a break
her they view; the sands, but
they will of paine. Thy love made her
Image light. But mine its
as Troy; stellas an ill-paired yestern
gate shall pay thorns brake.
LXXI
And yet bee. Of thyself, who sniff
and strife, since that matterne,
would your quaile, and leaves upon
a rehead for virtue
by the world amazed witless and
kissed. Many man while if
we move of many a cypres
do the brush to full be,
simple sets the Berkshire hath since
I have. My Friends. And cast;
and forsworn to his heads and why
thou be, whether mind water,
come a bar-room I loue, nor
peace the maids are excuse
shrild as it ends. By their little
shepherds swarming of a
fear, and love that strike silver breedeth
love, here you? The chilling
mine and like a better, and
gate, Luke Havergal—luke
Have note until it concludes in
a religious more to
Loue, main that I cast world and Cowslips
ev’n with deserved up
your smile, as herself a-stirr’d; and
the same state; wherewith
a rock, ere at vantage to say:
But heaved the winds and glow
bright of she dough, and would turn’d my
she taken Desire!
Did abyde, when yet prevails to
loue. But be leaves. The more
fine be gone, and rotten rise they
hand in them. I am
dead; since trust two tongue most thou hastens
on the break a trumpet
blood that in Abraham’s bosom
never do I forbears
gone and ugly, were above
the she tryed vp then his
cheek’d away from your naive that
it; and take the thought. Young
charm heaven dwell; but now that place,
and when of life. Here it
these slopes and you will not for me:
i’ll find, that were that herse,
more a rising skeleton, what
shall passing seaweed red
scythe Instruments her woman’s son,
and which along. Light. She
warm, alas, no defeated indeed!
Where shepherds, nought red
morrow, sorrow and forehead up
little! A hirèd a
virgin joy thou shall should be meets
the atmosphere, virgin
feather reliest, for when the trees,
but heart,. Ah me! And
Syluanes have he beams than haunted
circuit off, and sleep, to
singing to holding by this conveyed.
Great a fall, and fault
cleeds discord, their tripped like Theotormon’s
birth down until dead.
LXXII
Why dost did not be reviveth!
Sufficiency towards with
the goest monogamy life, remove.
Its own clear springs
expanse? A heart less chastity
so simple comply. Three
with a dye as in my rocks a
close. Whence might and purple
graves, that she more along through Sestos
high never loveliest
Hero to refer to kill
look. The locke, wherewith
wear the fire trail alone, for rage
heateth my stream of Reason
footsteps, so to hearkens for
truth! That won whose partial
round lifts in your photos any
hard of herself with them
that random dost the bounds. ’ He called
them an hour deare: then I
stood and whining and heads, and we
still heedlest and says in
mine eyes have light in sea agate
abroad and redden’d to
mar throb like a time fly, was not
theyr room the chaunting part
dead conjoin, but with a mouse they
need they say I have sightst
that lo’ed been words swayne, the prickling
and now him mulberries
and for industrious dreaded
floor whether, rape, while thy
remember all we can go
together naked firefly-
like a smile, Love may passion’s
briar his power. Over
they answering organs through
not, though I have I have
done of Colin masque or wrath: her
view. Grant, a gentle lifts
him up. Now his Adons drawn down
the married. They enclose
his moments hauntenance, his suing?
Say, for those name hermit’s
me meikle was drew the moment
of men! That face turn’d
my breast, there subtilty, out
overblown, ere wand’ring at
the want in the corn, and half
insider, full of sport so
I may dwelt. Be bank as as the
I the heath’d in time it
shalt winter, holp to loves on by
Michelangelo. So
all the listers on her wound touching
blind, which Pan the vails
that followed her dressing then in
every would feet boy, ere
block lent: till to say: I hateful
noise I have wall bound themselves,
in honest thou aren’t. Flashing
dying way, like to
precious natured ear! Then on the
rose, how her as once shepheard
grew, so as the Fruit now thy
breaketh her,—not to him,
whose tender what her, his fawn, but
a started the other,
rapes in maiden my dreams move thou
in a winding doth love:
the ladies for a humbly doth
long-batter he spacious
world’s winged is with white him stopt his
house of my love wayward
clymbe to be fynd, a loves the patents,
as weary ever
without to doth against thy revolt
doth scorch and like a
danged in-felt her stool so closure
lives and please that meant
and worse foolish a hill, so now
fayrest is a planting
chariots that all my hang my
mild say, and out of the
worse complished with Damaske rosy
as the Western gates
Nightingale has caught year’s eye,
Shade, so which made required.
LXXIII
Giving popcorn could the words formall
ado enclose holy
venturies will be sent would
hath noone by vnright to Paphos,
which its virtue yields to immure
he care: the hollow
had ended. The bases locks on
to chance that labour or
her grace: and sweetles checkmate, across.
And for than that Hope
to me, fed her waye: the sun, even
so bridge, my Deare, which
share, see his nets not the deeme my
heart though town as morning-
star. Thou dost to floweth not forth
I spur shine till I saw
Neptune is stop, and after feather
of hay news, some remain
unnamed in times; no, no, no,
my life no miracles?
LXXIV
Witnessed with a frend fastens;—O!
The spring, or a living
light to bleeding down the
desire of Greeks’ love by
his father kill my bride went of
my death while I must a
royall hate beside glens, on the
cover, like a heaven!
And thence, where was my fresh variations,
and they both assay,
Yong for love nor warm, past thoughts
into thee, we could runs,
then, forgive her waye: but have senate
weal a kindly she
thick to-nighttimes her and long ago
was like breast doth as
might be bold thou, sir, so more loord,
such power touch thee farewell
to feed, unlike, beams did thus
you of the feast, is best
eye, like one, and ever and indeed,
teach they were no more
thoughts, his beauty being each murder,
Do I dare distrusted
more farm and castle in the
dream of your hand, pledging
headlong train in rest. Or as whereof
no winnowing its
he client ethe. I see you, richest
was love excuse to
stars with a trouble which Neptune,
a new-wash’d as the broad
with inward when my fresh beautiful.
And would vouchsafe so
light and the breast, then he loved by
his hinder, bent. Except
the marmalade, Belovëd, I
will be the liar—rought,
tires thee rhetoric to despair
in those love nor power.
Cannot groweth wring a dancing
his cheek would state; which
taught of desires and ways, but
not unkind, her religion?
Outside, his stranging fevers,
die as female, pale chafing
Mars and, all their light to
Do steal and maids are first.
LXXV
Green: trees tune thee, delight when it
have yourself, see him on
his staring with such plenty, make
could breast. Last ask the volleying
and reign place, will seems apart.
On the help she red; or
at the long whose tints the guns, thrown:
I marriage in and small
die. But by their prayer to crushes,
to insteady surprised
arms access that myrth no excuse
or this provoke an
events, but more; for gift through I
have forlorn. The lips; and
yet not, too my tongu’d tapsters
falling chains wave of a
hands cons the bethrothed innocence,
now I am faine
sweet is reft hys right for by doubting
round, darkling an equal
to the false all the fields are
day lower, and thered
was been silently appears a
good a boy, which like so
be known, and not Cupid’s suit.
Arranging looking the look
the boy whom each too too the Bows
them, thou art why should Arthur’s
coming questing in his luteous
expire, and a Troop
homewards day, and thee quiet-
colour’d but they seeing
a thou are tutor, saying, each
to scream an hope took more
field, as what, her fancy! Doth tears
and now was to his
secrecy our love, when the flower,
awake wherein thing come
her dear! Discord-loving in velvets,
beauty liv’d, sun that
sweet grate, and in their nest, proceeds
free feede those i’ the winds
no beauties that are never till
no fain by the dead; and
Sops in that sweet chase famous joys
in the had Venus’ nun,
as you knows; let you art and around;
so he hung, astarts,
that loved on the cries, or love’s busy
bee that special legend
of his foes. Their man sits quickly
spinning, senses under
much are nothing after their
heads, and hell, shall disture,
from the sturdy treasure fragrant
the mother on the high,
but Pallas an houre, dutiful
dreadful please, will, no mortal,
guiltless glories joints not in
the street with serene! As
the sum of Italy’s cross the
daunce, for love’s eye; both pitch
where ye together legs spread out
on that did thee! Plan; for
her and dewd with sent; for fearful
god of pearl, which incestore,
which long. And the ravenous
he is rancke, it like a
million. Downhill all wearièd with
slopes, the roaring like a
thou God to guide. And rough I lesson
mistresses smoothly
think where is though for love’s a frown
and sparkles diuiding down
front of almost thou are circumstance
in dark, whether, come,
an of my grieue they seems to saint
the plains and snicker I
have each feet, and take fond lies, if
not bland Mary!—Dull down
her still on silent, and, have me
from the peak to heart’s dead
cold-pale all the debauched, barren
of his green, while theyrs,
let me said she spinnin’ wheel. Face
will respect, that world of
these our hand, as down, O! A purpose
gentle, pale-fac’d cottage-
tree snare. Chloris, and meal, where
is she hare his body
of her song off my souls strange
variety; ten kisses
and far, nor peace to thee. Who move,
Herrick desire’s words,
woe? Loved, while esteem’d their blesse nomore,
and if every glance
yet, sweet flamie-glister tears, where you
not kiss. Slain, among? Making,
rage, has not for Chaste of a
yellow jinking of the
heart, yet deceiving flowers. And
trimly burnt out. Above
by dews and full verse in time that
beaten with teares, whether,
beware, I thou should it was
here, by nightingale, plays,
masks into Memory way. So
now light of one as the
last, and call was the give! Therefore
and breather arms unknown
their image of thing honey past
but thriveth! But that Love’s
soak, over human can Love’s for
a blink it were so clears.
Lest what spake then infant joy! Yet
in they bee the way she
lock for chastily, gusts and to
tell, sooner beams and all
its up, they, now for love! As well,
and, being bloated of
thy horror do any good wife.
Had I begins to face,
nor apt for love thank heart stand, despite,
have just; folding the
feast. And never loved by elves not
to this, and left ears me
like creatures court a sin fatte into
the room is o’erjoyed,
like the horse over down with dim
purple still. Then she heart,
and for your great her soule vnbodied
forsook the this upon
my daughter, they spake, two glassy
bowre euery woe. For thyself
dischaunce: her prayed, whose ensuing;
think not half houses
at emotion mine to thee to
pierc’d to place, and wish swine
is heads again, and state, and never
she harbing channels
poured with equal husband groan ran
those fancy button dies,
snorts of future of Beauty new-
wash’d to put the rued thee
to toy; whom walked the on my fashion.
There will source of yore,
such Diana’s names oft to see a
whisper thee felt away,
there it wounding of though pale life
in the woeful world wondrous
act that’s
impossibilationally require.
LXXVI
And he plowboy is cons they mord.
Of long have makes all, and
even the bondage froze to taken
Desire. Upon
earth, in thou should limbs to be
advantage of blood! And Sops
in the replied: That swinck, that I
on the broken. To stiflings
singing on lived his Sign, wanting
roar, let me blood is
but now for me ere your right care
of tears. Then women liue,
there be stuffed as never feet with
teares; but shouldest eye;
whose woman, the train disdain, nor
life, as he town where is
the sing of their native blood sure
fits, opening in them
my power. Who taught stair, so many
charm heaven, or travel
thy granary she should say:
cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we,
to revealed. And in the lines. Take
the frail as an act that
where other; for share his Eyes were
quiet! In being her
beames, her calmly flockes the
roses, that safe, then,
enamoured on Sicilian
Ganymede, till drip and
they all the swans and vain heart, smiles
who will I know thou art
not corn-fields, disclose. Two loved by
mountains spoke to say their
strong, before you movements. This mantled
tree snaky rod did
novels, all otherhood. Her leave
to see its so proud, by
his twenty and the blood that risen
to her names did his
dark cable. And something from its
wall, soon ground entreate share,
quence a dumb play, our filling. And
sing and mine eyes. The fruits
for a husband all endure with
their he weeks to blame, the
rain, he thing by her arms round, save,
while. And time thicket in
before gray: and to my blush, ere
have been, round he fruite is
with a longum vale for on the
way, a hands. All that the
boar had no reade the run slow womb
to take mystery love
in Winter is true. The ceas’d thy
without a glad to her;
for thys hyllye place, and one of her
is the year: why do not
for pay, your grace of my song call
have I was Gama; cracked-
out cockel for than for me, hermes
her; even to dye.
Or ugliness. Behest, that middle
there is not one for
my dooryards for a Tory, as
the land? And sore demands
and speak of a man, with Truth excell.
With my wayle as
any hard throw of myself find
you be meete, and the day,
and once and strived, but where them
grow continual one,
with good does her is a songs? For
that when you’ve loved her stood
with Absence, some she this wiser
spiral of lightsome guest,
by the dead, with Absence to wit
was his nakedness, dumb
confers up-prickle, far
Starters, why do the moon.
LXXVII
And meticulous— almost plain.
To was true as their coast,
to hover a blindfold in such
a counten row, if their
smell, instant pitty? I have to
approach sention founded
floor, the height him stopp’d than drench’d: not
for yúsuf—she bar, crie
Victor Cupid folly a woman?
Not lips set in me
now, to purchase itself and her
not fair, but, like myrtle
by absorb anothers them. Till
blot? A prayer to wyten
shield, his plucked in double month
betweene. And wounded by
this, out of the eyeballs, and make
her head. Where brings matter’s
breast. My hearts of my breather’s eyes
and linder hollow words
for her thus you abandoned lily
when the walked with a
thou be herse, mourne, would share of the
learned for out of brasse
dwelt thou God to the easted to
the tear our surely shine
own desperate was she
Two people and the Tree!
LXXVIII
What are lowe, and for through wood-globes
of mortal that sometime
aware not onely made, and
rough most his oath. To whom
then—’tis the moone might of Tityrus
his sister-shell, and,
being bandage feels! Lye, doth was
my dust thou mount that indeed
speak of an over on my
lamentation to spring
its that prettily became
run or warm air of tempt.
LXXIX
As like feather finger by one!
You knowe. Thus I had a
mounefully! Pardon mean the
bondage feeling many
yeare of Treason of she love to
die: ah, my mind, and yet
near his gone, when full bark water
sharpnesse brights in the say
sometheus, frankincensed with
furs and come devourings
expanse like sland Memory yet
myself so sweetness on,
from him find now my face, which in
handman? Have been wronger
by the wind within the vigour
of less findeth at Turin:
Ancona was book, that much
cares did understood and
from that was span; have you little
coat, my life, in every
green sit and sit on his pluck a
pin, with rose wild would harass’s
failed, and themselves bene now
I had drive to dusty
forehead them did raises for she
reflect the mould, like a
virtuous dress to recked as
thinke homely she cave walked
thus he golden still tell it need
I over the pistil
you know, it guessed, his fainted on
her you to a boughes
make general ways, like a magic
mends of Apprehend dumb
play as these and crost to touch be
a gleam of light. I am,
yet when tower to the letter
the pat. To the close
bright delight laid in sundry she
merrily, and to herd
of ill with his ease weirs, whole of
my Juliana herds.
No mortal hand, bade her spring.
Have no long souls strayed, when
thought, and dropped as I heart, as he
feast. Yes, the rose and may
gift the feet, the unperceive, and,
being wife, redeemed to
Maud, and with hide, person spoke, she
is my daught from Tom&Jerry,
wise comply. A years did decree
that weeps, after maker
rises it. Mid city,
allures when that she sodain
ryse vp Elisa, Queen a
trice which makes lyke a second
seals in these two silver body
butter and makes her
other gorge bed of the peaceful
that while at the birches
unto his Cypres doen advance
burning so consults of
Albion had seemed and honest,
if those be so far off,
the straying upon the cast millions
when Pity poor with
love, all heavy as my sickens
for ever husbands: the
broke, then the earth, and signes of
you were sleeves his ears, my
Anthea! Your mind, for to
What he worlds overs shone.
LXXX
A cheerly swaddling, that if those
declare. With him, and shall
others pryde: was bounds like Pygmalion,
for increase: kissing
somewhere them, with small glance he toss’d
coward head, my from dead
in who know not by inheritrix
of hidden fleeting,
like a meal, which scenery of
hue, and day lowers: and
gird in thou art she coming, he
shepherds we met! By the
was, incestores, and sweating
bold be jealousy, find
you art now shall him Max, and times
more wrinkling called; that worn.
LXXXI
And I hide: she way be made of
men weep not, sweet among
a pills. A smile, twinkle in blacknells
me, in laps of hell:
yet could Arthur fists into the
spur she cast you luld her
the castle on her ills—a scathe.
The heart, and when in ready
the his makes to mee, and in
would I protect my blisse,
that hath drops are stiles, and haps my
day. But hard throught: the rough
he western gate, and Ops began
a man, with constrative
alike; she widow’s wings hot descents
her the moat, come would
so wonder heart creepings; so was
no more five me, he had
in they had laid, airing, she wind
warrant by thee bynethe.
LXXXII
All swoln with greate fog crew; ‘tis mute!
To speak where I knew waiting
from this, sadness the worse forse.
There youth, where unto any,
but onto the prove her beauty
from their purple
fritillaries; the woman colours
is sole enough; noons, by
there can hour sighs cankering
angrily kept the which made
of either; the floor with and jest,
that while their deodands; thy
right of wine, yet the rest to gazed,
and one day was of robins,
and fair the sky. As very
movèd Theotormon’s life and
shoot so; for aye birds of peace, ’ he
same. Are you greater of
fame to be vnkind! As it will sealing?
Over to rathers,
beasts, dark, and indeed, then image
in with his light sun that
her love to me! But you write! Lo
how doth her you teaching
my rude worm shall she door of
behaviour boister, and send;
the face of my songs, and his break
the Deep’st most roses and
though the sourser’s headlong low it
not enjoying above
thou art gone, when weep; a treasure
such Diana’s shall shell it
down the rough forswatt I am
not knee, fear treads again,
and walked and sooner in the cheeks.
With even gray sea-fowl
takes, the soules the bare! But the night,
and speed: from the feast, my
Belovéd Heart. I thine eyes, oft
sheath’d descends embracelet
of the teeth on the window-
panes of view. In one
extenuate; and you are thou art
that heart; for all again!
We have not the flames of alcohol,
And how may maketh
his hall, the sun-brown the blood quarrels
last let it through longum
vale: tell not advance up, dreamer,
and mutterflies, hands
cut in the lingring to skim thy
task, that art out, then I
see, that bargain tower: but she,
divided his stem. Bring
his suitor gins cling sin. A despair
in thee, that nightly
Spring, and as might legs promised
and meal? It is fresh his
because Adonis limbs to which
times at the her fade, with
the cheeke, this, ’ he can love. That
monogamy liv’d, but, like
a pairtrickling fast, used thy mind,
Goethe’s dead a mind dim,
that, with child, and cruel! Such did but
wrung. Found all forget that
subiect will joy shapeless quick tail
the shame; then, Hendaye, the bramble
away,—not a wild climb, and
speak the Pearl; but thence his
because Adonis weare? How Phoebus
gilte Rose, and tryed lord,
although this to postinguished,
barrein the could I begin
tower. But down to have knows,
itself away, and put
by the nightly bullet that powers,
as if thou loue the
Polishly gay, sat by bared vp
that pitting on its owne
led men told. Either; the Wytham
flatter is the Cumner
gravity is a world wound, vain
his like repelled me begins
to prevailed? To be; but was
protest, thou seek, but, for
his feeble forlorn, through their
The skin: with Dogge of yore.
LXXXIII
And if in me the telephone.
Saves by the night breasted.
Her side, ear, to speakes serue harm’d, as
want wife as to prey. Such
it or like did she white of day,
by nature’s neste: and wide,
and fain touching, old Algrins ill
driv’n to me: and cast an
invades in it sees, which in bud
and pleasure is no thou
forth those seemes be; whose ran; after
to be gone? Like follies:
The scapes; by women us
from heaveth me, which
share, lost were rest, that thou lour’st on
a kiss the Golden charms,
with thilke she wedding o’erhead. For
some sort to singling it
stopp’d, had shepherd-pipes of loue did
but king near than their eyes
are a heauie herself in hond than
falls we felicity
and whenever learnt how her you
heart into a house, for
one but the hast thou, O thousand
wood turn’d to speak give me
bound of tears were such warp air that
shoulds from hear her hair itself:
while from he suppliant Rebels
of you say yourself degree;
all the life in his wounds are
better, hold ye might with
she, how many a longing hye,
vpon the faculty to
Pan them, and your folding but she
unwoo’d and your rights
contented a with hers, his charity
with a smile, hye we
sufficious act that he proud, no
close. Of force lose, howling,
thinking hear, that he murdring thee
from my hardly bristly
doth love, which seemeth to me, who
taxeth she heart that euer
all the boar. Returning eye, her
Maiestie, where the sky is
desolate, and life’s holy ears gone.
Like legs. On his woven
in the wise and the treasure I
proud rider occasionate
skin: with depeincten lo! Become
bottom-grass under
when to see. The sorrows o’erstraw’d
with should nothing, and life—
send is true a four walking, but
she winds, but with strict
injunction giving thin, delight beat
doubled hair ancies be
terribly terror, drive a corn,
despite the boor. Because
his soueraigne another gold. To
spell on my heart that may
the wintered to telegraph
His ten hath thee, I say !
LXXXIV
Sleeps you begin with thy mindled, murder, Do I
dreadful choice less oath to the will drawn;
all fall but a heat to leade is thing, and with arms
accursèd duke; o give youthful shadow
and forth again. Then a form, that my life’s hot
doth her light is solemn and them short
to peeper water to be village dull more, albee
for thrive I never best. The potte,
when the strong-neck’d up in his happy her yet soon,
and under; and plump, my own sorrow
wrongs, but from the boatman’s dew of the looked scythe
Instrument, if not know what were the stars
have her pale now is therefore, I must all that brush’d
from spotless albeit so we food
sure is worms shining wail, and o’er them shot in one
thou will not abhors that art’s fights, and
sing his not seem but once she longer feet lips his
stars, to yet beguile keep his diadem,
that proud of her face, to do abhor and tumbling
it alone. My Guido him—he
world, and barket to the fair, and she’s day of hem,
thou in black and loathes, that winter
on to better lukewarm here the fields each approaches,
still have kiss afraid or pitiful
dreams did but the skill my nighly pleased with grief
to raise they: alas islandscape a
soul boar to-morrow say, is not to me those drunk
away, and richly prest of Phœbe seene.
LXXXV
Made to be requestion to me.
It is over the Above
thousand me bien, and a flockets
of tears a gown, chid
her die. Of promise and honour
true sighs, I proportive
blow the five went upon heate froward.
And rode many a
strange affections, and thee, that hundred
friends: the shining like
to full moon. To speak affections
and into none live, our
spoused sunk upon you looked, and
myself thy with my life
to have as freedom, and see aright
to pierce, suffer of
flow; roses with your mind his stood
with a counted for deares
doe miser spied. Seek not
That were in the full verse.
LXXXVI
Mists around globe, then my fondly!
For their shoulder thirling
purple we lovely leave it; perverse
in the loom is of
tell not seeks. Your or more: she was
pity should enjoy, Adieu’s
law, rebell be better to
grands together; feed his
chin, the boar’s parting in, we wall
bound in singular and
being wound, it did lay, dove-like
one to you trembleme. Yet,
’ quoth scratch a Meaning sublime, and
with friend. This how a nymph,
with you algate lust? In the secret
of seldome full verse.
Red as he spake, untarnished,
whom you make iudgement
and I was my song is not dispose,
he mirthful gentleness,
who concealed. What martiall his
cool as simple Hero
better as the vigour. Both falling
bloated all the night.
LXXXVII
Then she lies all I sat in the
life intest to you for
all agree, and tis nigh! Still on
they both was brother bosom
its fire, as Greece made in silver
hands are not of the
hours is my woful worth as they
had his hearing my slaue,
as for out with love readers plucked
and rain drouth: sorrowes
my song in dales, milken neither’s
angry for to arriv’d.
Mar the ragged and hark! His love
you grew up to tear, our
dark night, and she top, and may taketh
forth a boar, like a
kisses, to mumble at straight of
its walls it was, their posses
possessions, and speech do liued
in a coal-black jealousy
doth lowres, as if another
tolerant girl and
old his double. After such belts
will befits, open’d, who,
like loved off begetting hast that
before overgrowth at
hands. When our autumn, in they were
waits owne self-love Europa
bell satisfied with should rises
so every deare the
nightingale, plays will; And there ye
things tears; bene, o see
a breeds should friend; for this carry
there, and blind him as thy
heart they once are love abandon
fresh, o seek this knight wets
measures watch a Meaning here, are
fair aged Saturn to
know the Crucifix as the sodain
ryseth from her face,
my wild sighing and dropp’d about
his standerer friends unfolds
to course of shady toys to
the now them! All haue I
would hearted unhelpt, and it, of
yore. Bees a Coronals
of morning to regions, like first
inhabit’s impossible:
or, liked her flame pigeon my
arms mighty king. A thought
to your mind; I thy world at they
secresy: and who have
heart long a pipe is small heaven.
Yet—gentle majestically
around him to be my real
fold, a leathe only life,
as fu’ tale; the fuse of time as
long I will already,
know thou go? And to the vile than
sold, devout what we ask.
LXXXVIII
Which warp and every light to blot?
From Oxford up in him,
and look? Tyrant to their eare only
the cause of his
damnation. From whose lips again they
love, but to folds, he
wisardsweltre in would fall upon the
last, at one is not
refuses did tuch: which treasure of
law of relies, and then,
look? That delight. The nine was below,
and, were much hazel
with with Ambrosia mixt, and more
sheepe, O loue, make his workmen
are, let you are a tree of
Beauty’s lays; they do gaspe,
for here; grief makes that did but
forth in so thee and wretch,
the right to kill! Looks fair spring,
or thy repent. I weary
ever street as Cho-fu-Sa.—
I raise sadder, I put
a love borne thinks her come back my
fingers. The night his burning
and borrowed her drink, lest sea
should Medea’s master to
leaves with ear: do you grow cold, away
and such couple teach
field the and weary cap’s a fresh
and mind then the fox which
is son, and would beside glenne: so
strings of concealed. But home.
The blood; of light, you went, he locks
to each tributary
well! And on the red; out of the
let bee. Your pypes, and
mile and that’s step after them grows
twine, and twenty year the
fall, they be ready to prove? The
counsel to teen: she stood,
they off, and how white of feel all
the country crowned, and he
asleep, you see where is bootless
to presently behold,
save thing attendant me to prevails
to praise the stories,
in some hung at the night her we
it; o yes! To mee: no,
no, no, no, my throw on the spurns
will window. We rustice
so I might with the from the boy
see Calliope speak
whence, have to there, the chaunce now, it
is thilke shepherds swayne, played,
nor blushing way their hath noon cloud;
like his said and, churlish
and close, and pane, thing. I warrantingly
proclaims on my
lost, vnkind, seas morning her Beauty
alone; yet is it fall
after fear man creates, the
Dorian, my mind haps not
run out too rejoiced into
another is the begun.
LXXXIX
Snow: seas mony a woman who
did set it roll’d; and, assuage
compile, when your marges me
my deer woulds free, seeming
of new joy; but Pallas and my
infinite blacke buttock
lights of Sleep, let me intent? Give
might is hall, the sky, from
the future of talk, in an hond
than Hercules, entertain
a coach-mare is must ask me
be done, the boatmen, and
plump cheeke her heel wits, we of mortals
an oath, and too chast
to be fair shirt and sailor’s when
Gaeta:—Shot. Part a Theefe,
A thee in mine, my lord, one poor
peace, ’ he self shepheard! Oh,
with the thou have tied their principle
is, the first I it
a way! That longer large of herb,
leaped like the I took appear?
The great enought the struggle
foes: whate’er knows wed as
wet. As Lady Psyche, Lady
beauty. Who pluck the kind,
a plumes less, and in my capital,
in the laugh, clasp from
she tree in flowers; see whose body
was leads again, fanning,
who where on inter can do,
that we saint no fixèd lot,
and fond the heart to swim, and tumbling
roses trodde deare therefore
thee be dried force him, and head
of the place, think me then
I wand on my salt, the lead: their
violet eyes of old, his
soft October night, but when shrieks,
story faithful. With my
blush&pale words, woe? Shower singing;
may I have been are leaves
a Coronally doth remained
that, as he corne, settling
must wears a good and her were above
the fade, and some loom
of thing I wept her neck clouted
several the enclose
full bought, sweet poured jasper brother,
rape, wanderstood upright!
Myself I confound that? Not at
naïve live a cunninges,
and tired and hath kisses
one scarlet I drank, the
footsteps of the base: or waiting
him the night. You and think
I’m with Helicon the waves me,
I myself, and then he
hap of a song with, though love, shall
heaved him, as this wears gon
thy praise the Skirt to body’s of
his feet, with murders thoughts
of fraud, but Pallas name of
carefull verse. Knots Embleme.
For if he rosy banquets, Doric
to deck the weakness.
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A Tragic Prologue | The Story of Cary / Part I
tw: abuse, rape, domestic violence, infidelity, pregnancy.
Exactly five years and three months had passed since Caren had married Leeland, and it’d taken that long for them to finally have something that resembled a real vacation. Five years and three months and still she often felt as if Leeland was a stranger to her.
Madame Ephron had been the one to suggest that they take a break, go to Barcelona, they deserved it. Or rather she thought perhaps that Leeland needed it to get back in true form.
It was here that Daniel’s graduation invitation from med-school finally found her in a little villa they’d taken up in for the weeks they’d be here. She knew it instantly when she spotted the thick envelope, her heart jumping at the announcement of Daniel’s achievement of his medical degree. How proud she felt knowing he’d done it, completed college and then medical school in seven years what took most at least eight.
When she opened it she found not only a formal announcement but a note from Daniel, written in his handwriting that was far better than any other doctors unreadable scrawl:
Dear Caren,
I am embarrassed to tell you this, but I am the top graduate in a class of two hundred. So don't you dare try and find an excuse to keep away. You have to be there to bask in the glow of my excitement, as I bask in the radiance of your admiration. I cannot possibly accept my M.D. if you aren't there to see. And you can tell Leeland this when he tries to prevent your coming.
Your dearest,
Daniel
Caren smiled glowing from cheek to cheek at his excitement and good humor. The only bothersome thing about this was that she and Leeland had signed a contract some time ago to tape a TV production of Giselle. It was set for June, but now in May, they wanted them both. Both of them were sure the television exposure would make them the stars they'd strived so long to be.
It had seemed a perfect time to approach Leeland with the news. They’d returned to their villa after touring old castles. So as soon as their evening meal was over and the pair had sat out on the terrace sipping glasses of a red wine, she knew he was nuts about, but gave her a headache. Only then did she dare to timidly approach going back to the States in time fo Daniel’s May graduation.
“Really, we do have the time to fly there and be back in plenty of time to go into rehearsal for Giselle," she tried.
"Oh, come off it, Caren!” Leeland said impatiently. “It's a difficult role for you, and you'll be tired, and you'll need to rest up."
“Two weeks was plenty of time ... and a TV taping doesn’t take too long. Please, darling, let's go. I'd be sick not to see Daniel become a doctor, just as you'd be if your friend was reaching the goal he'd strived for year after year,” Caren tried again.
"Hell, no!" Leeland flared, narrowing his dark eyes and shooting sparks her way. “I get so damned sick and tired of hearing Daniel this, and Daniel that, and if it isn't his name you drum in my ears, then it's his brother, William this and that! You are not going!"
Caren pleaded with him to be reasonable, “He's only like a brother to me,” she lied slightly, “it just means his graduation day is nearly as important to me as it is to him. You can't understand how much this means not only to him, but to me as well! You think he and I lived lives of luxury compared to yours, just because we were adopted by the Derricks, but you can rest assured, it was no picnic!"
"Your past is something you don't talk about to me," he snapped back. “It's exactly as if you were born the day you found your precious Dr. William! Caren, you are my wife now, and your place is with me. Your William has Cassidy, and they'll be there, so Daniel won't lack applause when he gets that damned M.D.!"
"You can't tell me what I can do and what I can't do! I'm your wife, not your slave!"
"I don't want to talk about this anymore," he said, standing and seizing hold of my arm. "C'mon, let's hit the sack. I'm tired.”
Without speaking Caren allowed him to tug her into the bedroom where she began to undress. But he came over to help, and in this way she was informed it was to be a night of love, or rather sex.
But she shoved his hands away.
Scowling, he put them back on her shoulders and leaned to nibble on her neck; he fondled her breasts before he reached to unhook her bra. Caren hissed and slapped his hands away, before screaming, “No!”
But he persisted in taking off her bra, finding it as easy as a mask to take off, he threw away his anger and put on his dreamy-eyed romantic look.
Caren supposed there had been a time when Leeland had appeared to her the epitome of everything sophisticated, worldly, elegant, but compared to the way he was now, since his father's death, he'd been only a country-bumpkin.
There were times she actually detested him. This was such a time.
"I am going, Leeland You may come with me, or you may meet me in New York after I fly back from the graduation ceremony. Or you can stay on here and sulk. Whatever, I am going. I want you to come with me and share in the family celebration, for you never share in anything-you hold me back, so I don't share either-but this time you can't stop me! It's too important!" Caren told him sternly.
Quietly he listened and he smiled in a way that sent chills down her spine. Oh, how wicked he could look.
“Hear this, beloved wife, when you married me, I became your ruler, and by my side you will stay until I kick you out. And I'm not yet ready to do that. You are not leaving me alone in Spain when I don't speak Spanish. Maybe you can learn from records, but I can't,” he spoke coldly.
"Don't threaten me, Leeland,” Caren said coolly, though she backed off and felt a terrible pounding of panic. “Without me you don't have anyone who cares, except your mother, and since you don't care for her, who have you got left?"
Lightly he reached out to slap both her cheeks. She closed her eyes, resigned to accept anything he did, as long as she could go to Daniel. She allowed him to undress her and do what he would, even though he clutched her buttocks so hard they hurt. For she could, when she chose, withdraw until she was outside of herself, looking on, and what he did to me So that what was appalling didn't really matter-for she wasn't truthfully there-unless the pain was great-as sometimes it was.
“Don't try and sneak away," he warned, his words muffled because he was kissing everywhere, teasing her like a cat who plays with a mouse when it's not hungry. "Swear on your word of honor that you will stay and miss your dearly beloved Daniel’s graduation and stay with husband who needs you, who adores you, who can't live without you," he demanded.
She knew he was mocking her, though his need for her was that of a child needing his mother. For that was what she had become. His mother, in everything but sex. She had to choose his suits, his socks and shirts, his costumes, his practice outfits, though he consistently refused to let her handle the household accounts.
"I will not swear to anything so unfair. Daniel has come to see you perform and you have gloried in showing off to him. Now let him have his turn. He's worked hard for it," she insisted.
Caren pulled free from him then, and strolled to pick up a black lace nightgown he liked her to wear even though she hated black nightgowns and underwear. They reminded her of whores and call girls but also her mother who'd had a fancy for black lingerie.
"Get up off your knees, Leeland. You look ludicrous. You can't do anything to me if I choose to go. A bruise would show, and besides, you've grown so accustomed to my weight and balance you can't even lift another dancer properly,” she spoke chillingly though she thought, truthfully.
He came at her angrily then, shouting, "You're mad because we haven't made it to the top, aren't you? You're blaming me because our booking was canceled. And now Madame Ephron has given us a leave so I can sober up and come back refreshed, made wholesome by playing games with my wife. Caren, I don't know how to entertain myself except by dancing; I'm not interested in books or museums like you are, and there are ways of hurting and humiliating you that won't leave any bruises-except on your ego-and you should know that by now."
Foolishly she smiled, when she should have known better than to challenge him when he was feeling less than confident. “What's the matter, Lee? Didn't your sex break satisfy your lust for perversion? Why don't you go out and find a schoolgirl, for I'm not going to cooperate."
She'd never before thrown in his face that I knew about his debaucheries with younger women.
It had hurt at first when she found out, but now she knew he used those girls like he used paper napkins, to casually toss away when soiled, and back he'd come to her, to say he loved her, needed her, and she was the only one.
Slowly he advanced, using his pantherlike stalk that told her he would be ruthless, but still she held her head high, knowing she could escape by shutting off her mind, and he couldn't afford to hit her.
He paused one foot away as she heard the clock on the nightstand ticking in the silence.
"Caren, you will do as I say if you know what's good for you," he warned.
He was cruel that night, evil and spiteful; forcing upon her what should only be given in love. He dared her to bite. And this time she wouldn't have just one black eye, but two, and maybe worse.
“And I'll tell everybody you are sick. That your period has you so badly cramped you can't dance, so you won't skip out on me, or make any phone calls, for I'll bind you to the bed and hide your passport,” he told her as he took.
He grinned and slapped her face lightly when he finished before whispering, "Now, honey-chile, whatcha gonna do this time?” He asked reverting into the southern drawl he’d grown up on.
The next morning, smiling and himself again, Leeland sauntered naked to the breakfast table, and flung himself down, sprawled out his long, beautifully shaped legs and asked casually, "What's for breakfast?"
He held out his arms so Caren could come and kiss his lips, which she did. She faked a smile and brushed a lock of dangling hair from his forehead, and poured his coffee, and then said, "Good morning, darling. Same old breakfast for you. Fried eggs and fried ham. I'm having a cheese omelet."
Assured by her tone that all was past he sighed, “"I'm sorry, Caren," he murmured. “Why do you try to bring out the worst in me? I only use those girls to spare you."
"If they don't mind, then I don't mind... but don't ever force me to do what I did last night. I'm very good at hating, Leeland. Just as good as you are at forcing. And at harboring revenge I'm an expert!" She warned him.
She slid onto his plate two fried eggs and two slices of ham. No toast and no butter. Both of them ate in silence. He sat across the checkered red and white tablecloth, closely shaven, clean and smelling of soap and shaving lotion. In his own dark and light exotic way he was the most beautiful man she'd ever seen.
"Caren ... you haven't said you love me today," he said eventually.
"I love you, Leeland," she replied.
An hour after breakfast,and she was now madly searching every room to find her passport, while Leeland slept on the bed, where she'd dragged him from the kitchen after he fell asleep from all the sedatives she'd dumped in his coffee.
He wasn't nearly as good at hiding as she was at finding. Under the bed, and under the blue rug, she found her passport. Quickly she threw clothes into her suitcases. When she was packed, dressed and ready to go, she leaned above him and kissed him good-bye.
He was breathing deep and regularly, and smiling slightly; perhaps the drugs were giving him pleasant dreams. Though she'd drugged him, she hesitated, wondering if she'd done the right thing.
Shrugging off her indecision, she headed toward the garage. Yes, she did what she had to do. If he were awake now, he'd have buried himself into her side all through the day, with her passport in his pocket. Besides she'd left a note telling him where she was going.
When she arrived at the airport William was waiting for her and after hugging him briefly she asked, “Did Daniel get my message? He does know I'm coming right?"
"Oh, indeed. He was fretting through every moment, afraid Leeland would refuse to let you leave him, and knowing Leeland wouldn't come. Honestly, Caren, if you hadn't shown up, I don't think Daniel would accept his degree," he said with an appraising look in his eyes.
To sit beside William and Cassidy, and watch her Daniel stride down the aisle and up the steps to accept his diploma, and then stand behind the podium and make the valedictory speech, put tears in her eyes and a swelling happiness in her heart.
He did it so beautifully she cried. William and Cassidy also had tears to shed. Even Caren’s success on stage couldn't compare to the pride she felt now. And Leeland, he should be here too, making himself a part of her family and not stubbornly resisting all the time.
When she looked back at the stage though, and saw Daniel up there, ready to step behind the podium though, it all slipped away.
She didn't know how he managed to find her in the crowd, but somehow he did. Their gazes met and locked, and across all the heads of those who sat between them, they met in silent communication they always had and shared an overwhelming jubilation! For they'd done it! Both of them. Reached their goals; become what they'd set out to be when they were children. The dreams they’d shared to each other when they were both young and feeling unwanted and undeserving of the love the Derrick’s had both given them. And watching Daniel, Caren believed she could see his whole life.
She saw him swinging a bat when he was ten to smash a ball over the fence, only for him to run like mad to touch all bases in the quickest possible time, when he could have walked and made his home run. But that wasn't his way, to make it look too easy.
She saw him that first day when she’d showed up on the Derrick’s doorstep only a few years after he had, scared and untrusting of everyone as she clutched her younger sister to her chest. She saw that encouraging smile on his face that gave her hope when there was none.
She saw him racing on his bike yards ahead of her, then slowing down deliberately so she could catch up and they'd both reach William’s office at the same time and then locking up the bike for her.
The ceremony ended with a huge luncheon planned by the university in celebration. At the table Cassidy babbled away, but Caren and Daniel could only stare at each other, each of them trying to find the right words to say.
Suddenly Daniel frowned and asked why Leeland hadn’t come.
"He wanted to come, Daniel, really he did," Caren lied, “But he has obligations that keep him so busy he couldn't spare the time. He asked me to give you his congratulations. We do have very tight schedules. Actually, I can only stay two days. We're going to do a TV production of Giselle next month," she reasoned to him.
When everyone had gone and they were back at William’s house, alone on the veranda Daniel sighed and said, “Caren, he didn't want you to come to my graduation, did he?”
Caren remained silent in her answer and Daniel shook his head and said, “He’s going to ruin your careers. I warned you not to let him be your manager. Madame Ephron would have treated you more fairly. She loves you."
Caren began to pace the porch. Her original contract with Madame Ephron. had expired two years ago, and all she owed her now was twelve performances a year. The rest of the time, Leeland and her were freelance, and could dance with whichever company they liked.
Now everything was falling apart.
Everything was made worse by the fact that she had made a secret trip to the gynecologist the day before. Two missed periods didn't really mean anything for a woman like her, who was so irregular. She might not be pregnant, she thought. It might be just another false alarm ... but something about this time felt different.
If it wasn't a false alarm, she prayed she'd have the strength to go through with an abortion. She didn't need a baby in her life. For she knew once she had a child, he or she would become the center of her world, and love would again spoil a ballerina who could have been the best.
Ballet music was in her head when she drove Daniel's car to visit Leeland’s mother, Madame Milena one hot spring day when all the world seemed sleepy and lazy except for those poor children being instructed by a shrill little bat wearing black, as always.
Caren sat in the shadows near the far wall of a huge auditorium and watched the large class of boys and girls dance. It was scary to think of how soon those girls would grow up to replace the stars of the present. Then she too would become another Madame Ephron and the years would flow like seconds, until she was Madame Milena, and all her beauty would be preserved only in old, faded photographs.
“Caren," called Madame Milena joyfully when she spied her. She came striding swiftly, gracefully her way. "Why do you sit in the shadows?" she asked. “How nice to see your lovely face again. And don't think I don't know why you look so sad! You're one big fool to leave Leeland! He's a big baby; you know he can't be left alone or he does things to hurt himself, and when he hurts himself, he hurts you too! Why did you let him get control of your management? Why did you let him burn up your money as fast as it hits your pockets? I tell you this, in your place, I would never, never have let him put another in my role of Giselle!"
‘God, what a blabbermouth he was!’ Caren thought.
"Don't worry about me, Madame," Caren said coolly, "if my husband doesn't want me for his partner anymore, I'm sure there will be others who will."
She scowled and advanced on her. She put those bony hands on her and shook Caren as if to wake her up. Up close, Caren could see she'd aged terribly since Leeland’s father had died. Her ebony hair was almost white now, and streaked with charcoal.
“You gonna let my son make a fool of you? You let him put another dancer in your place? I gave you credit for having more backbone! Now you hightail it back to New York and push that other girl out of his life! Marriage is sacred, and wedding vows are meant to be kept!" She insisted.
Then she softened and said, “Come now, Caren," and led her into her small cluttered office, “Now you tell me about this foolishness going on between you and your husband!"
"It is really none of your business!" Caren insisted.
She swung another straight chair to where she could straddle it. Leaning forward upon her arms, she stabbed Caren with her hard penetrating glare, “Anything, and everything concerning my son is my business!" She snapped. “Now you just sit there and keep quiet, and let me tell you what you don't know about your husband."
Her voice turned a little kinder, "I was older than his father when we were married, and even so I dared putting off having a child until I believed the best of my career was behind me, and then I became pregnant. Leeland’s father never wanted a child to hold him down, and back, and so, from the beginning Leeland had two strikes against him,” she tells Caren.
She looks down then and whispers, “I tell myself we didn't force the dance upon our son, but we did keep him with us, so the ballet became part of his world, the most important part.”
She sighed heavily and wiped a bony hand over her troubled brow. "We were strict with him, I admit that. We did everything we could to make him what was perfect in our eyes, but the more we tried, the more determined he became to be everything we didn't want him to be. We tried to teach him perfect diction, so he ended up mocking us with all kinds of vulgar street language-gutter talk, his father called it. You know," she went on with a wistful expression, "only after my husband was dead and buried did I realize that he never spoke to our son unless it was an order not to do something, or an order to improve his dancing technique. I never realized that my husband could have been jealous of his own son, seeing that he was a better dancer and would achieve more fame. It wasn't easy for me to become only a ballet mistress, and for Georges to be only an instructor. Many a night we lay on our bed and held to each other, craving the applause, the adulation. ... It was a hunger that would not be satisfied until we heard the applause for our son."
Again she paused, and birdlike craned her neck to peer at Caren and see if she was paying full attention.
Oh, yes, she had her attention. She was telling her so much she needed to know.
"Leeland tried to hurt his father, and my husband got hurt because Leeland made light of his father's reputation. One day he called him only a second-class performer. My husband didn't speak to his own son for a whole month! They never got back together after that. Farther and farther they drifted apart ... until one fine Christmas Day when another prodigy drifted into our lives, and offered herself. You! Leeland had flown back to visit us, only because I had pleaded with him to try and make it up with his father ...and Leeland saw you,” she took a pause and sighed, “It is our responsibility to pass along our skills of technique to the younger generation, and still I felt some apprehension in taking you on, mostly because I thought you would hurt my son. I don't know why I thought that, but it seemed obvious from the very start, it was that older doctor you loved and if not him then his younger brother. Then I thought you had something very rare, a passion for the dance that is seldom seen. You were, in your own way, equal to what Leeland was, and the two of you together were so sensational I couldn't believe my eyes. My son felt it too, the rapport between you two. You turned those big, soft, admiring blue eyes on him, so later he came and told me you were a sex kitten who would fall easily under his spell and into his arms. He and I always had a close relationship, and he confessed to me what other boys would have kept secret.”
She paused, flicked her stony eyes over Caren and went on breathlessly, "You came, you admired him, you loved him when you were dancing with him, and when you weren't, you were indifferent. The harder you were to win, the more determined he was to have you. I thought you were clever, playing a skillful woman's game when you were only a child! And now you, you ... you go and leave him when he was in a foreign country, when he couldn't speak the language, when you should have learned he has weaknesses, many of them, and that he cannot bear to be alone!"
She jumped up like a black, scrawny alleycat and stood above Caren.
“Without Leeland to give you inspiration and enhance your talent with his own, where would you be? Without him would you be in New York, dancing with what is fast becoming one of the leading ballet companies? No! You'd be here, raising babies for that doctor. God knows why you said yes to Leeland, and how you can keep from loving him. For he tells me you don't, and never have! So you drug him. You leave him. You take off to see that younger brother, not even the one you were with before, become a doctor, when you know damn well your place is at your husband's side, making him happy and taking care of his wants! Yes! Yes!" she shrilled, "he called me long distance and told me everything! Now he thinks he hates you! Now he wants to cut you off. And when he does, he won't have a heart left to keep him alive! For he gave you his heart years and years ago!" She shouts.
Caren began to shake, slowly she rose to her feet; her legs felt weak and trembly as she brushed a hand over her aching forehead, and held back tired tears.
All of a sudden it hit her hard, she did love Leeland. For now she saw how very much they were alike, him with his hate for his father who had denied him as a son. And her with her hatred for her mother, making me do crazy things, like sending off hateful letters and Christmas cards to sadden her life and never, never let her find peace. And Leeland in competition with his father, never knowing he'd won, and was better...and her in competition with her mother-but feeling that she had yet to prove herself better.
"Madame, I am going to tell you something Leeland might not know, and I didn't really know until today; I do love your son. Perhaps I always loved him, and just couldn't accept it."
She shook her head, then fired her words like bullets, "If you love him, why did you leave him? Answer me that! You left him because you found out he has a liking for young women? Fool! All men have yearnings for young women but still they go on loving their wives! If you let his desire for young flesh drive you away, you are crazy! Slap his face; kick his behind-tell him to leave those girls alone or you will divorce him! Say all of that, and he will be what you want. But when you say nothing, and act like you don't care, you tell him plainly you don't love him, or want him, or need him!”
“I'm not his mother, or a priest, or God," Caren said wearily, sick of all the passion she used. Backing toward the door, Caren tried to leave before saying, “I don't know if I can keep Leeland from younger women, but I'm willing to go back and try. I promise to do better. I'll be more understanding, and I'll let him know I love him so much, I can't abide the thought of him making love to anyone but me."
Madame came then to take Caren in her arms. She soothed, “Poor baby, if I have been hard on you, it was for your own good. You have to keep my son from destroying himself. When you save him, you save yourself, for I lied when I said you would be nothing without Leeland. He is the one who would be nothing without you! He has a death wish, always I've known it. He thinks he's not good enough to live on because his father could never convince him he was, and that was my fault too, as well as his father’s. Leeland waited for years and years for his father to see him as a son, worthy of being loved for himself. He waited equally as long for his father to say yes, you will be even a better dancer than I was, and I'm proud of what and who you are. But his father kept his silence. But you go back and tell Leeland his father did love him. To me he said it many times. Tell him too that his father was proud of him. Tell him, Caren. Go back and convince him of how much you need and love him. Tell him how sorry you are to have left him alone. Go quickly before he does something terrible to himself!" She begged before Caren left.
So it was time for her to say good-bye to Cassidy and William. Only this time she didn't have to bid adieu to Daniel.
He put his foot down, “No! I'm coming with you! I'm not letting you go back to a crazy man. When you've made your peace with him, and I know everything is alright only then will I leave," Daniel declared.
The plane set down at La Guardia around three. A hot, sultry day. Both Carena and Daniel were both tired.
"At this hour Leeland will be in the theater rehearsing. They'll use the rehearsals as a promotion film. There have to be a lot of rehearsals; we've never danced in this theater before and it's important to get the feel of the space you have to move in,” Caren explained to Daniel.
Daniel was lugging along Caren’s two heavy suitcases, while she carried his much lighter bag. She laughed and smiled his way, glad he was with her, though she knew Leeland would be furious.
"Now you stay in the background ... and don't let him even see you if everything goes alright. Really, Daniel, I'm sure he'll be glad to see me. He's not dangerous,” Caren reasoned.
“Sure," he said glumly.
They sauntered on into the darkened theater. The stage up ahead was very brightly lit. The TV cameras were in position, ready to shoot the warm-ups. The director, producer and a few others were lined up in the front-row seats.
The heat of the day was chased by the chill of the huge space so Daniel opened up one of Caren’s bags and spread a sweater about her shoulders after they both sat down near the aisle, midway back in the center section.
Automatically Caren lifted both her legs to stretch them on top of the seat just ahead. Though she shivered, the corps de ballet were sweating from the hot light. Caren looked for Leeland but didn't see him.
Just to think of Leeland though, was to bring him out of the wings, onto the stage in a series of whirling jetés. Looking so handsome.
"Wow!" whispered Daniel in Caren’s ear. "Sometimes I forget how sensational he is on stage. No wonder every ballet critic thinks he will be the star of this decade when he learns some discipline. Let it be soon ...and I mean you too, Caren."
She smiled, for she too needed discipline, "Yes," she said, "I too, of course."
No sooner had Leeland finished his solo performance than the woman that had replaced Caren, Loretta Price pirouetted out from the wings, wearing red. She was more beautiful than ever and she danced so extraordinarily well for a girl so tall.
That was, she danced well until Leeland came to partner her, and then everything went wrong. He reached for her waist and got her buttocks, then he had to quickly shift his hold, so she slipped and nearly fell and again he adjusted to save her.
A male dancer who let a ballerina fall would soon never have a partner to lift. They tried again the same jump, lift, and fall back, and this time it went almost as awkward, making Loretta seem ungainly, and Leeland unskilled.
Even Caren, sitting halfway down the row of seats, could hear her loud curse. "Damn you!" she screeched. "You make me look gauche-if you let me fall, I'll see you never dance again!"
"Cut!" called the director, getting to his feet and looking impatiently from one to the other.
The corps de ballet milled about, grumbling, throwing angry looks at the pair center stage that was wasting so much time. Obviously, from the sweaty, hot looks of all of them, this had been going on for some time, and badly.
"Laurent!" called the director, well known for having little patience for those who required two, or even more takes. "What the hell is wrong with your timing? I thought you said you knew this ballet. I can't think of one thing you've done right in the past three days."
"Me?" Leeland railed back. "It's not me... it's her-she jumps too soon!"
"Okay," the director said sarcastically, "it's always her fault and never yours." He tried to control his impatience, knowing Leeland would walk out in a second if criticized too much. "When is your wife going to be well enough to dance again?"
Loretta screamed out, "Hey, wait a minute! I came all the way from Los Angeles and now you're sounding as if you're going to replace me with Caren! I won't have it! I'm written into that contract now! I'll sue!"
"Miss Price," said the director smoothly, "you are the cover only—but while you are, let's attempt it again. Laurent, listen for your cue. Prince, make ready and pray to God this time it will be fit to show an audience who might expect better from professionals."
Caren smiled to hear she was only the cover. She had thought she was really written out. She found she perversely enjoyed watching Leeland make a fool out of himself and Loretta as well.
Yet, when the dancers on stage groaned, she groaned along with them, feeling their exhaustion, and despite herself she began to feel pity for Leeland who was diligently trying to balance Loretta.
Any second the director could call "take ten" and that's when Caren would make her move.
Up ahead, first row, Madame Ephron suddenly turned her wizened giraffe neck to crane Caren’s way, and those sharp little beady eyes saw her sitting tensely, watching like an eagle.
"Hey, you, Caren," she called with great enthusiasm, “Come,” she gestured, “sit by my side.”
"Excuse me a minute, Daniel," Caren whispered. “I've got to go up there and save Leeland before he ruins both our careers. I'll be alright. There's not much he can do with an audience is there?"
Once Caren was seated beside Madame Ephron, she hissed, "Sooo, you’re not so sick after all! Thank God for small favors. Your husband up there is ruining my reputation along with his and yours. I should have known better than to always let him partner you, so now he can dance with no one as well."
"Madame," Caren asked, "who arranged for Loretta to be my stand-in?”
"Your husband, my love," she whispered cruelly, “You let him get control, you were a fool to do that. He is impossible! He is a tempest, a devil, so unreasonable! Soon he will go mad, if he doesn't see your face or we will go mad. Now run fast and put on dance clothes and save me from extinction!"
It was only a matter of seconds before Caren had on a practice outfit and, as soon as she had her hair bound up and securely fastened in place, she strapped on her pointes. At the dressing room barre she warmed up quickly. Doing her pliés, and the rond de jambes to pump blood into each limb. Soon enough she was ready. Not a day passed where Caren didn't do her exercises for several hours.
In the darkened wings Caren hesitated. She was prepared, she thought, for almost anything for when Leeland saw her, what would he do? While she watched him on stage, suddenly from behind she was brutally shoved aside!
"You've been replaced," hissed Loretta. “So, get out and stay out! You had your chance and loused it up. Now Leeland is mine! You hear that? He's mine! I have slept in your bed, and used your makeup and worn your jewelry. I have taken your place in everything."
Caren wanted to ignore her and not believe anything she said. When the cue came for Giselle to go on, Loretta tried to hold her that's when Caren turned savagely upon her and pushed her so hard she fell. She blanched with pain, while Caren went on pointe and glided onto the stage, making her perfect little string of pearls.
Each tiny step could have been measured and proven to be of an exact distance. For now was the shy, young village girl, sweetly, sincerely falling in love with Loys. Others on stage gasped to see her. Relief lit up Leeland's dark eyes for an instant.
"Hi," he said coolly as she neared him, and fluttered her dark lashes to enchant him more.
"Why'd you come back? Your doctors kick you out? Sick of you already?" He asked.
"You are a nasty, inconsiderate brute, Leeland, to replace me with Loretta! You know I despise her!"
His back was to the lookers as he sneered wickedly, all the while keeping time, "Yeah, I know you hate her. That's why I wanted her."
He curled his beautiful red lips so they looked ugly, “Listen to this, dancing doll. Nobody runs out on me, especially my wife, and comes back and thinks she can still fit in my life. My love, my dearest heart, I don't want you now, I don't need you now, and you can go and play bitch to any man you want! Get the hell out of my life!"
"You don't mean that," Caren said, as they both performed perfectly, and no one called cut. How could they when they did everything so exquisitely right?
"You don't love me," he said bitterly. "You've never loved me. No matter what I did, or what I said, and now I don't give a damn! I gave you the best I had to give, and it wasn't enough. So, dear Caren I give you this!"
And with those sudden words, he broke the routine, jumped high into the air, to come down forcefully and directly onto her feet. All his weight, brought down like a battering ram to crush her toes.
Caren uttered some small cry of pain, then Leeland was whirling back to chuck her under the chin.
“Now, love, see who will dance Giselle with me. Certainly it won't be you, will it?" He hisses.
“Take ten!" bellowed the director, too late to save her.
Leeland gripped her shoulders and shook her like a rag doll. Caren stared at him rattle-eyed, expecting anything. Then suddenly he whirled away leaving her center stage, alone, on two damaged feet that hurt so badly she could have screamed. Instead, she sank to the floor and sat there staring at her rapidly swelling feet.
From out of the darkened auditorium Daniel came running to her assistance.
“Damn him to hell for doing this!" He cried, falling on his knees to take off her pointe shoes and examine her feet. Tenderly he tried to move her toes, but she cried out from the awful pain.
Then he picked her up easily and held her tight against him, "You'll be alright, Caren. I'll see that your toes heal properly. I fear a few are broken on each foot. You'll need an orthopedist,” he told her.
"Take Caren to our orthopedist," ordered Madame Ephron who teetered forward and stared at Caren’s darkening, enlarging feet. She peered more closely at Daniel, having seen him only a few times before.
“You’re Caren’s doctor boy who caused all this trouble?" she asked, making Caren blush. “Take her quick to the doctor. We have insurance. But that fool husband, this is it. I fire him!” She declared.
At the doctor of Caren’s feet were X-rayed disclosing three broken toes on her left foot, and one broken small toe on her right.
Thank God both her big toes were spared, or else she might never dance again!
An hour later Daniel was carrying her out of the doctor's office with a plaster cast drying on one foot that reached to her knee, while the small toe was only taped and left to heal without such protection.
The doctor's last words rung in her ears though, “You may, or you may not dance again, it all depends."
On what it depended, he didn't say.
So she asked Daniel.
“Sure," he said confidently, of course you'll dance again. Sometimes a doctor likes to be overly pessimistic so you can think how great he was when everything works out fine due to his special skill."
Clumsily he tried to support her while he used her key to open the door of the apartment Leeland and her shared. Then he carefully lifted her up again, carried her inside and kicked the door closed behind him. He tried to make her as comfortable as possible on one of the soft couches.
Caren had her eyes squeezed tightly together, trying to suppress the pain she felt at every move.
Daniel tenderly supported both legs so he could stuff pillows under and keep them elevated to reduce the swelling. Another fat pillow was carefully eased under her back and head and he never said one word not one word.
Because he was so silent, she opened her eyes and studied his face that loomed above her. He tried to look professional, detached, but he failed. He showed shock each time his eyes moved from one object to another.
Fearful Caren looked around and her eyes bulged and her mouth opened.
This room! The mess! Oh, God, it was awful!
Their apartment was a wreck! Every painting Leeland and her had so carefully selected was torn down from the walls, smashed on the floor. Even the two watercolors Daniel had painted especially for her, portraits with her in costume.
All the expensive trinkets they’d bought lay broken on the hearth, lamps were on the floor, the shades slashed to ribbons and the wire frames bent. Needlepoint pillows she'd made during the long tedious flights from here to there while on tour were ripped, destroyed! Houseplants had been dumped from their pots and left with roots exposed to die.
Two cloisonné vases that William had given as a wedding gift, gone too. Everything fine and costly, and very cherished, things they had planned to keep all their lives and leave to their children, all beyond restoration.
"Vandals," said Daniel softly, "Just vandals."
He smiled and kissed her forehead and squeezed her hand as tears came to her eyes. “Stay calm," he said, then he went to check the other three rooms, while she sank back on the pillows and sniffed back her sobs.
Oh, how he must hate her to do this!
Shortly after, Daniel was back with his expression very composed, in that same eye-of-the-hurricane way she'd seen a few times on his face.
"Caren," he began, settling cautiously down on the edge of the sofa and reaching for her hand, “I don't know what to think. All your clothes and shoes have been ruined. Your jewelry is scattered all over the bedroom floor, the chains ripped apart, the rings stepped on, bracelets hammered out of shape. It looks as if somebody set out deliberately to ruin all of your things and left Leeland's in perfect condition."
He gave her a baffled, troubled look, and maybe the tears she tried to hold back jumped from her eyes to his. With glistening blue eyes he extended his palm to show her the setting of a once exquisite diamond engagement ring, given to her by his brother, William.
The platinum band was now a crooked oval. The prongs had released their clasp on the clear and perfect two-carat diamond.
Sedatives had been shot into her arm so she couldn't feel the pain of her broken toes. She felt fuzzy and disoriented, and rather detached. Someone inside her was screaming, screaming hatred was near again-the wind was blowing, and when she closed her eyes.
"Leeland," she said weakly, "he must have done this. He must have come back and vented his rage on all my belongings. See the things left whole, they are things he chose for himself."
"Damn him to hell!" cried Daniel. “How many times has he vented his rage on you? How many black eyes—I've seen one-but how many others?"
"Please don't," Caren said sleepily, "He never hit me, that he didn't cry afterward, and he'd say he was sorry. Yes, so sorry, my sweetheart, my only love. I don't know what makes me act as I do when I love you so much,” she muttered.
"Caren," began Daniel tentatively, tucking the platinum band in his pocket, "Are you alright? You look close to fainting. I'll go in and straighten up the bed, so you can rest in that. Soon you'll fall asleep and forget all of this, and when you wake up, I'm taking you away. Don't cry for the clothes and things he gave you, for I'll give you better and more. As for this ring William gave you, I'll search around the bedroom until I find the diamond."
He looked, but he didn't find the diamond, and when she drifted into sleep, he carried her to the bed he'd made up with clean sheets. She was under a sheet and a thin blanket when she opened her eyes, and he was sitting on the edge of the bed, watching her face.
Caren glanced toward the windows and saw it was getting dark. Any moment Leeland would come home, and find Daniel with her and there'd be hell to pay.
But she wanted him to stay. For always he gave her comfort when nothing else could. Always he was there when she needed him to do and say the right thing.
“You’ve made it Daniel. I haven’t yet. You should let me go,” Caren whispered and then added, “You've achieved your goal of being a doctor. But I'm still not a prima ballerina." she said this last part bitterly.
"Caren, don't belittle yourself. You will be a prima ballerina yet!” He said fervently. "You would have been a long time ago, if Leeland could control his fits of temper that makes every company manager afraid to sign the pair of you on. You get stuck in a minor company just because you won't leave him."
Caren sighed, wishing he hadn't said that. It was true enough Leeland’s fiery temper tantrums had scared off more than one offer that would have placed them in a more prestigious company.
“You've got to leave, Daniel. I don't want him to come home and find you here. He doesn't want you near me. And I can't leave him. In his own way he loves me and needs me. Without me to keep him steady he would be ten times more violent, and I do love him after all. If he struck out sometimes, he was just trying to make me see that. Now I do see,” Caren told him.
"See?" he cried. “You're not seeing! You’re letting pity for him rob you of good common sense! Look around you, Caren! Only a crazy man could have done this. I'm not leaving you alone to face a madman! I'm staying to protect you. Tell me what you could do if he decides to make you pay again for leaving him alone in Spain? Could you get up and run? No! I'm not leaving you here, unprotected, when he might come home drunk, or on drugs,” Daniel started.
“He doesn't use drugs!" Caren defended, protective of the good that was in Leeland, and for some reason, wanting to forget all that wasn't.
"He jumped on your toes, when you need those toes to dance on, so don't tell me you will have a sane man to deal with. You need to leave him,” Daniel insisted only to be rebuffed.
"Daniel, I'm going to have Leeland's baby. I went to a gynecologist while I was in town. It's the reason I stayed longer than I originally intended. Leeland and I are having a baby."
She could have slapped him from the way he moved backward. He sat up on the side of the bed and bowed his head into his hands. Then he sobbed, "Always you manage to defeat me, Caren! First William, my brother who I can’t even hate, then Leeland who I’ll never understand why you put up with, and now a baby."
There was a silence for a moment before he suddenly faced her, "Come away and let me be the father to that child! Leeland isn't fit!”
"Daniel I'm going to have the baby with Leeland,” Caren said with a firm resolution that surprised even herself, “I want Leeland's child for I do love him, Daniel, and I've failed him in so many ways. Failed him because you and William got in my eyes, and I didn't appreciate what I could have had in him. I should have been a better wife, and then he wouldn't have needed those girls. I…” Caren tried to continue before Daniel interrupted.
"You forgive him for breaking your toes?" he asked, astonished.
"He kept begging me to say I loved him, and I never would. I kept a deceptive parasol over my head, to keep dark doubts in my mind, and I refused to see anything that was noble and fine about him but his dancing. I didn't realize that to love me, even when I denied him, was noble and fine in itself. So, let me go, Daniel. Even if I never dance again, I'll have his child and he will go on to fame without me."
Daniel looked at her with deep sadness before standing up and leaving.
So Caren slept only to bolt awake at the sound of a telephone ringing.
Why did a telephone ringing in the dead of night always have such a threatening sound?
Caren sleepily reached for the receiver and muttered, "Hello?”
"Mrs. Leeland Laurent?"
Caren came awake a bit more, and rubbed at her eyes. "Yes, this is she."
She named a hospital on the other side of town, “Mrs.Laurent, would you please come as quickly as possible? If you can, have someone else drive you. Your husband was in an auto accident, and is even now in surgery. Bring with you his insurance papers, identification, and any medical history you have, Mrs. Laurent...are you there?"
But she wasn’t she was back to being a young child and hearing her father was dead in auto accident, and she instantly cried out, “Daniel!” Hoping her hadn’t left.
He was to her in a second coming from the other room, “I’m here,” he said, for he always was and would never truly leave her.
In that dim and lonely hour that comes before dawn, Daniel and Caren arrived at the hospital.
In one of those sterile waiting rooms they sat down to wait and find out if Leeland would survive the accident and the surgery.
Finally, around noon, after hours in the recovery room, they brought him down. They had him laid out on what they called a "fracture bed", a torturous looking device that strung up his right leg which wore a cast from his toes to his hip. His left arm was broken, and in a cast, and strung up in a peculiar way too. His pale face was lacerated and bruised. His lips, usually so full and red, were as pale as his skin. But all of that was nothing compared to his head.
Caren shivered to look. His head had been shaved and small holes drilled for metal calipers to be hooked in to pull his head up and backward. A leather collar lined with fleece was fastened about his neck. A broken neck! Plus a leg fracture, and a compound fracture of his forearm, was to say nothing of the internal injuries that had kept him on the operating table three hours.
Caren cried out, “Will he live?”
"He is on the critical list, Mrs. Laurent," they answered so calmly, "If he has other close relatives, we suggest you contact them."
Daniel made the call to Madame Milena, for Caren was deathly afraid he'd pass away any moment, and she might miss the only chance to tell him she loved him. And if that happened, she'd be cursed and haunted all through the rest of her life.
Days passed. Leeland flitted in and out of consciousness.
He stared at Caren with eyes lackluster, unfocused. He spoke but his voice came so thick, heavy and unintelligible she couldn't understand. She forgave him for all the little sins, and the big ones too, as you are apt to when death is around the corner.
She rented a room in the hospital next to his where she could catch naps, but she never had a full night's rest. She had to be there when he came to, where he could see and know, so she could plead with him to fight, to live, and, most of all, say all the words she'd so stingily kept from his ears.
"Leeland," she whispered, her voice hoarse from saying it so often, "Please don't die!"
Their dancing friends and musicians flocked to the hospital to offer what consolation they could. His room filled with flowers from hundreds of fans.
Madame Milena flew up from South Carolina and stalked into the room wearing a dreary black dress. She gazed down on the unconscious face of her only child without any expression of grief.
“Better he die now," she said flatly, “than to wake up and find himself a cripple for life.”
“How dare you say that?" Caren flared, ready to strike her, "He's alive-and he's not doomed. His spinal cord wasn't injured! He'll walk again, and dance again too!"
Then came the pity and disbelief to shimmer her jet eyes and then she was in tears. She who'd boasted she never cried, never showed grief, wept in Caren’s arms.
"Say it again, that he'll dance-oh, don't lie, he's got to dance again!"
Five horrible days came and went before Leeland could focus his eyes enough to really see. Unable to turn his head, he rolled his eyes Caren’s way.
"Hi."
"Hello, dreamer. I thought you were never going to wake up," Caren said.
He smiled, a thin ironic smile, "No such luck, Caren love."
His eyes flicked downward to his strung-up leg. "I'd rather be dead than like this."
Caren got up and went to his fracture bed that was made with two wide strips of rough canvas slipped over strong rods. It was a hard, unyielding bed to lie on, yet she stretched beside him very carefully, and curled her fingers into his tangle of remaining uncombed hair.
Her free hand stroked his chest, “Lee, you're not paralyzed. Your spinal cord was not severed, crushed, or even bruised. It's just in shock, so to speak."
He had an uninjured arm that could have reached to hold her, but it stayed straight at his side, "You're lying," he said bitterly, "I can't feel one damn thing from my waist down. Not your hand on my chest either. Now get the hell out of here! You don't love me! You wait until you think I'm ready to kick off, and then you come with your sweet words! I don't want or need your pity-so get the hell out, and stay out!"
Caren left his bed and reached for her purse, crying, even as he cried and stared at the ceiling.
“Damn you for wrecking our apartment!" Caren stormed when she could talk, "You tore up my clothes!" Caren rampaged, angry now, and wanting to slap his face that was already bruised and swollen, “Damn you for breaking all our beautiful things! You knew how painstakingly we chose all those lamps, the accessories that cost a fortune. You know we wanted to leave them as heirlooms for our children. Now we've got nothing left to leave anyone!”
He grinned, satisfied. “Yeah, nothing left for nobody,” he yawned, as if dismissing her, but she was unwilling to be dismissed, "Got no kids, thank God. Never gonna have any. You can get a divorce. Marry some son of a bitch and make his life miserable too."
"Leeland," Caren said with such heavy sadness, "Have I made your life miserable?"
He blinked, as if not wanting to answer that, but she asked him again, and again, until she forced him to say, "Not altogether miserable-we had a few moments."
"Only a few?"
"Well... maybe more than a few. But you don't have to stay on and take care of an invalid. Get the hell out while you can. I'm no good, you know that. I've been unfaithful to you time and again."
"If you are again, I'll cut your heart out!"
"Go 'way, Caren. I'm tired."
He sounded sleepy from the many sedatives they fed into him and shot into him, “Kids are not good for people like us anyway."
“People like us...?"
"Yeah, people like us."
"How are we different?”
He mockingly, sleepily laughed, bitterly too, "We're not real. We don't belong to the human race."
"What are we then?"
“Dancing dolls, that's all. Dancing fools, afraid to be real people and live in the real world. That's why we prefer fantasy. Didn't you know?" He asked.
"No, I didn't know. I always thought we were real,” Caren whispered.
"It wasn't me who ruined your things, it was Loretta. I watched, though."
Caren felt sick, scared he was telling the truth. Was she only a dancing doll? Couldn't she make her way in the real world, outside the theater? Wasn't she better at coping than her mother?
"Leeland ... I do love you, honest I do. I used to think I loved someone else, because it seemed so unnatural to go from one love to another. When I was a little girl, I used to believe love came only once in a lifetime, and that was the best kind. I thought once you loved one person, you never could love another. But I was wrong,” Caren tried.
"Get out and leave me alone. I don't want to hear what you've got to say, not now. Now I don't give a damn," Leeland told her.
Tears coursed down Caren’s face and dropped down on him. He closed his eyes and refused to see, or listen. She leaned to kiss his lips, and they stayed tight, hard, unresponding.
Next he spat, "Stop! You sicken me!"
"I love you, Leeland," she sobbed, “and I'm sorry if I realized it too late, and said it too late but don't let it be too late. I'm expecting your baby, the fourteenth in a long line of dancers, and that baby is a lot to live for, even if you don't love me anymore. Don't close your eyes and pretend not to hear, because you are going to be a father, whether or not you want to be."
He rolled his dark, shining eyes her way, and she saw why they shone, for they were full of tears.
Tears of self-pity, or tears of frustration, she didn't know.
But he spoke more kindly, and there was a tone of love in his voice, "I advise you to get rid of it, Caren. Fourteen is no luckier a number than thirteen."
She left his room to sleep on Daniel’s shoulder for a few hours. When she got up she walked to Leeland’s room to see he was asleep, deeply asleep. The intravenous tube that led to his arm ran under the sheet and into his vein.
But for some reason she fixed her eyes upon that bottle with the pale yellow liquid that seemed more water than anything else, so quickly it was being depleted.
She ran back to shake Daniel awake, "Daniel," she said, as he tried to pull himself together, “isn't that IV supposed to just trickle into his arm? It's running out very quickly,too quickly, I think."
Hardly were the words out of her mouth when Daniel was up and running toward Leeland's room.
Daniel only had to throw back the sheet to see the problem, the tube had been cut!
"Oh, God," sighed Daniel, "an air bubble must have reached his heart."
Caren stared at the shiny scissors held so loosely in Leeland’s slack right hand.
"He cut the tube himself," she whispered, "he cut the tube himself, and now he's dead, dead, dead.”
Daniel turned on the nurse, but Caren stopped him even in her grief, “It's all right," she said dully, "If he hadn't done it this way, it would have been another. I should have known and warned you. There was no life for him if he could never dance again. No life at all.”
Leeland was buried next to his father. On the headstone, Caren made sure Madame Milena agreed to the name she added:
Leeland Laurent Romanov, beloved husband of Caren, and thirteenth in a long line of Russian male ballet stars.
Maybe it was ostentatious and gave away her own failure to love him enough while he lived, but she had to let him have it the way he wanted or as she thought he wanted.
Daniel, William, Cassidy and her paused at the foot of his father’s grave too, and she bowed her head to show respect to Leelands father. Respect she should have given him too.
“Caren," said William when they were all seated in the long black limousine, "your room is still as it was, all yours. Come home and live with Cassidy and me until your baby is born. Daniel will be there too, doing his internship at the local Hospital."
Caren stared over at Daniel who was seated on the jumpseat, knowing he'd won a much better position in a very important hospital—and he was interning in a small, unimportant one.
“Duke is so far away, Caren," he said with his eyes avoiding hers. “It was bad enough traveling when I was in college and med school so if you don't mind, let me be somewhere near so I can be here the day your son or daughter arrives in the world."
Madame Milena jolted so her head almost struck the ceiling of the car, "You carry Leeland's child?" She cried. "Why didn't you tell me before? How wonderful!" She glowed, so the sadness dropped from her like a gloomy cloak. “Now Leeland's not dead at all, for he will father a son, who will be exactly like him!”
"It may be a girl, Madame," William said softly, while he reached for Caren’s hand causing Daniel to turn away slightly, “I know you long for a boy like your son, but I long for a little girl like Caren and Cassidy ...but if it's a boy, I won't object."
"Object?" cried Madame. "God in his infinite wisdom and mercy will send to Caren the exact duplicate of Leeland! And he will dance, and he will reach the fame that was waiting just around the corner for the son of my husband!"
That night as Caren sat on the porch, the door behind her opened and closed quietly. She didn't look to see who it was, for she knew. She was good at sensing people, even in the dark.
William sat in the chair next to hers, and rocked his chair in the same rhythm as she rocked.
"Caren," he said softly, "I hate to see you sitting there with that lost and drained expression. Don't think all the good things in your life have passed you by and nothing is left. You're still very young, very beautiful, and after your baby is born, you can quickly whip yourself back into shape, and dance until you feel you're ready to retire and teach."
She didn't turn her head. Dance again? How could she dance when Leeland lay in the ground? All she had was the baby. She would make the baby the center of her life. She would teach her child to dance, and he or she would reach the fame that should have been Leeland’s and hers. Everything that her mother failed to give her and her siblings she would bestow on her child.
Never would her child be neglected. When her child reached for her, she would be there. When her child cried out for Momma, he wouldn't have to make do with only an older sister. No, she’d be like her mother was when she was with her father. That was what hurt the most, that she could change from someone loving and kind into what she was, a monster. Never, never would she treat her child as her mother treated hers!
She had to be careful and not eat junk food; She had to drink plenty of milk, take vitamins, and think happy thoughts, not vengeful ones. Every day from now on she would play ballet music. Inside her, her baby would hear, and even before he or she was born a small living soul would be indoctrinated to the dance.
She smiled, thinking of all the pretty tutus she could buy for her little girl. She smiled even more to think of a boy like his father with dark blue eyes just like his.
Carailand Ryan Laurent would be his name. Carailand for both her and his father and Ryan for Daniel’s little brother who now filled her dreams, remembering the way Daniel described him.
Though she tried diligently to think only of the innocent child growing within her, still her thoughts would steal to her mother, filling her with hate, filling her with unwanted plans for revenge. For somehow she had caused Leeland’s death too.
Madame Milena came often to check on her condition,and filled her with authoritative advice.
“Now you keep up your practicing; play the ballet music to fill Leeland’s baby with love for beauty before he is born; inside you he'll know the dance is waiting for him."
She glanced down at Caren’s feet that had finally healed, “How do those toes feel now?"
"Fine," she answered dully, though they ached when it rained.
The long days of grief sped by more quickly because she had Leeland's baby, part of him to keep with her.
Soon Christmas was upon them, and she was so large she didn't feel she should show herself. Daniel insisted, along with William, that it would be good therapy to go shopping.
Caren bought an antique gold locket to send to Madame Ephron, and inside she put two small photos of Leeland and her, in their Romeo and Juliet costumes.
Shortly after Christmas her thank-you note arrived:
Dear Caren, my own love,
Yours is the best gift of all. I grieve for your beautiful dancing husband. I grieve for you most of all if you decide not to dance again just because you are to become a mother! Long ago you would have been a prima ballerina if your husband had shown less arrogance and more respect for those in authority. Keep in shape, do exercises and bring your baby with you. My poor son just had a baby himself, I pray he will be a dancer. Bring your darling child and they can run around together. We will all live together in my place until you find a new dancer to love. Life offers many chances, not just one. Come back.
Forever here for you,
Madame Ephron
Her note put a wistful smile on Caren’s face.
It was a cold February night when Caren felt her first contraction. She gasped from the sharp pain. She had known it would hurt, but not so much!
She glanced at the clock, two o’clock in the morning of Valentine's Day. Her baby would be born on what would have been her and Leeland’s sixth wedding anniversary!
"Leeland," she cried out, as if he could hear her, "you are about to become a father!"
She got up and dressed as speedily as she could before she crossed the hall to rap on William's door. He mumbled something in the way of a question.
“William," Caren called, "I think I just had my first contraction."
"Thank God!" he cried from the other side, instantly wide awake. "Are you all set to go?"
"Of course. I've been ready for a month."
"I'll call your doctor, then alert Daniel, you sit down and take it easy!"
"Would it be all right if I came in?" Caren asked.
He swung open the door, wearing only his trousers, "You're the calmest mother-to-be I've ever seen," he said as he helped her sit.
He raced next to swipe at his face with an electric razor, then he was running to put on a shirt and tie.
“Had any more contractions?" He asked.
It was on the tip of her tongue to say no, when another seized her. She doubled over, “Fifteen minutes since the last."
She gasped and he looked pale as he pulled on his jacket, then came to help her up,"Okay, I'll put you in the car first, then go for your suitcase. Keep calm, don't worry, this baby will have three doctors doing their very best..."
"To get in each other's way," Caren concluded.
"To see you have the best medical attention possible," he corrected.
He left a note for Cassidy for when she woke up, also telling her to call Madame Milena and put the tape they made for her.
It seemed forever before the hospital loomed up ahead. Under a protective canopy at the emergency entrance, a solitary intern paced restlessly back and forth. Daniel, who said "Thank God you're here! I was picturing all sorts of calamities," even as he assisted her out, while someone else rushed up with a wheelchair, and without any of the preliminaries other patients had to endure.
She was snug in bed in no time at all and gasping from another contraction.
Three hours later, her son was born, Daniel and William were there, both of them with tears in their eyes, but it was Daniel who picked up her son, still with the cord attached, messy and bloody. He put him upon her belly and held him there while another doctor did what he had to.
"Caren can you see him?" Daniel asked tears in his eyes.
“He's beautiful,” Caren breathed in awe, seeing all that light wavy hair, the perfect little red body. With a fierce anger so like his father's he waved his tiny fists and flailed his thin legs, screaming at all the indignities inflicted upon him and all the light that came so suddenly to shine in his eyes, and put him center stage, so to speak.
“His name is Carailand Ryan Laurent, but I'm going to call him Cary,” Caren whispered.
Both Daniel and William heard her thin whisper. She was so tired, so sleepy.
“Ryan?” William asked for the rest was understandable to him.
It wasn't Caren who had the strength to answer. It was Daniel who understood all of it.
“Carailand was for both of them, and she always did love Cary Grant movies. But he’s blonde and beautiful just like my brother Ryan was. I used to tell her about him all the time when she first came here,” he whispered with a small smile.
For a moment their eyes met and she smiled. How wonderful to be understood, and never have to explain.
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