Friday, March 25, 2022

ALONE by James Joyce

 ALONE 

by James Joyce


The noon's greygolden meshes make

All night a veil,

The shorelamps in the sleeping lake

Laburnum tendrils trail.


The sly reeds whisper to the night

A name-- her name-

And all my soul is a delight,

A swoon of shame. 

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