Poems ✍️

  22.01.2026
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Author: Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

To Her Whose Name

To her whose name,

With its sweet sibilant sound like sudden showers

Splashing the grass and flowers,

Hath set my April heart aflame;

 

To her whose face,

The flower and crown of all created things,

Dearer than even Spring’s,

Hath been to me a sacrament of grace;

 

Whose luminous mind,

Stored with all gladness of the earth and sky,

Hath lightened my sad eye

And made it wise in love which erst was blind;

 

Whose voice of pleasure,

Calling to joys as a blithe wedding bell

When ringers ring it well,

Hath tuned my soul to its own happy measure;

 

Whose blessed hand,

With its white mystery of fingers five,

Each one a soul alive,

Hath taught me truths no angels understand;

 

Whose arms within,

Should she once clasp me to her very heart,

God knoweth we should not part

But live for aye in Heaven’s own bliss divine;

 

To her, alas,

Who is so near, yet standeth still so far,

Seeing the mortal bar

Betwixt us ever which we cannot pass,

 

These lines I send

With my heart’s tears to—night beseeching her,

Of her dear love more dear,

To be no less to me my sweetest soul and friend.



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