Men Loved Wholly Beyond Wisdom ~ Louise Bogan Men loved wholly...

Nascosti Paroli ― Men Loved Wholly Beyond Wisdom ~ Louise Bogan Men loved wholly beyond wisdom Have the staff without the banner, Like a fire in a dry thicket, Rising within women’s eyes Is the love men must return. Heart, so subtle now, and trembling, What a marvel to be wise, To love never in this manner! To be quiet in the fern Like a thing gone dead and still, Listening to the prisoned cricket Shake its terrible, dissembling Music in the granite hill.                             [...]