Mary Elizabeth Fullerton
1868 - 1946 Australien
Love's Exclusiveness
O little heart! the honey in thy cells
Is all for one; the house is far too small
To banquet more than her; 'tis not for all.
In dainty plentitude thy sweetness swells,
One pair of lips shall find it where it wells;
And if, anon, there ooze beyond the wall
A tiny drop on which the hungry fall
Like greedy ants, one hath the secret dells.
O little heart, what are the big world's woes,
To wide world's needs? Do lovers know or care?
Not more than cares yon ploughman, as he goes
Home through the starlight, how those beings fare
Who, mad with terror in a world afar
Down gulfs of space, fall with their falling star.
1868 - 1946 Australien
Love's Exclusiveness
O little heart! the honey in thy cells
Is all for one; the house is far too small
To banquet more than her; 'tis not for all.
In dainty plentitude thy sweetness swells,
One pair of lips shall find it where it wells;
And if, anon, there ooze beyond the wall
A tiny drop on which the hungry fall
Like greedy ants, one hath the secret dells.
O little heart, what are the big world's woes,
To wide world's needs? Do lovers know or care?
Not more than cares yon ploughman, as he goes
Home through the starlight, how those beings fare
Who, mad with terror in a world afar
Down gulfs of space, fall with their falling star.