Dearth

by Florence Earle Coates

Versions of Dearth include:

• Coates, Florence Earle (1908), "Dearth" in The Smart Set (August 1908).^[1]
• Coates, Florence Earle (1909), "Dearth" in Lyrics of Life (1909).
• Coates, Florence Earle (1916), "Dearth" in Poems I.

Notes

An additional first stanza is present in The Smart Set version:

AS one who thirsting waits, while mocking him
⁠The waves o'erleap his shattered vessel's brink;
And, drifting on, life's cup but once to brim,
⁠Fain to sheer depths would sink—
So everywhere beholding love neglected,
Carelessly set aside, despised, rejected,
⁠I faint for a pure draught not mine to drink.

References

1. View this version at Google Books.