- CONDEMNED
DO you want to break my heart
That you say this to me,
With eyes low-lidded and silent lips —
"This is the place of love's eclipse.
Love at this place sinks out of sight,
As, in a tideless, fathomless night,
The lead sinks in the sea."
Do you want to break my heart
That you say this to me?
Do you want to break my heart
That you look thus at me;
Look without speech, look without sign,
Look with eyes that meet not mine;
Look, as if, beyond my face,
You looked thro' empty gulfs of space
Into eternity?
Do you want to break my heart
That you look thus at me?
Do you want to break my heart
That you let your head fall so;
Fall like a flower with petals furled,
Forgetting life, forgetting the world?
Fall on my shoulder and hide it there,
Like a marble thing whose cold despair
Has no more tears to flow.
Do you want to break my heart
That you let your head fall so?
Hush! Let us pray together!
Though we have deeply sinned,
If on the wind stirs a feather,
If a leaf stirs on the wind,
We are saved. Oh, far apart!
Nothing, nothing has stirred.
Do you want to break my heart
That you will not speak one word?