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1913 · PDF PAGE 6

The Writing On the Ground

… worse than all, the poem called “ Two Loves,” beginning with the celebrated quotation from Shakespeare—‘ My better angel is a man right fair, my worse a woman tempting me to ill.” In a vision the “poet” sees two people; the first is joyous, and sings; the second walks aside :— “He is full sad and sweet, and his large eyes Were strange with wondrous brightness, and staring wide With gazing ; and he sighed with many sighs That moved me, and his cheeks were wan and white Like pallid lilies, and his lips were red Like poppies, and his hands he cle…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 5

The Writing On the Ground

…re than half divine, Less than half human now.’” And again :— “0, food to my starved eyes, (That gaze unmoved on wanton charms of girls) Fair as the lad on Latmian hills asleep.’ 5

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