Sonnets and Songs

<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</SPAN></span></p> <h3><SPAN name="XXVI" id="XXVI"></SPAN>XXVI</h3> <h3><i>Not Dead but Sleeping</i></h3> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">And if I came, ah, if I came again,<br/></span> <span class="i2">And laid my hand on your forgetful heart,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Where once it lay so warm, could the pulse start,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Remembering Spring? Now, at the sound of rain,<br/></span> <span class="i0">I do but turn a little in disdain<br/></span> <span class="i2">To see the flowers renew their lovely part,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Blooming afresh. For memory holds no smart,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Love aches no more to know how it was slain.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Yet if I came to you who heed no more<br/></span> <span class="i2">My name upon the wind? Love&#8217;s ghost, lean near,<br/></span> <span class="i2">I have a word that only you may hear.<br/></span> <span class="i4">If you should come to me with dear desire,<br/></span> <span class="i0">My soul&#8217;s dry staff should tremble to its core<br/></span> <span class="i4">And flame against your touch in buds of fire.<br/></span></div> </div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />