Poem by Eleanor Farjeon

Sonnets. 18. Shall we not laugh together, you and I

Shall we not laugh together, you and I,
I being at last fulfilled, at last at rest
Within the strength of your beloved breast,
Shall we not laugh once at a day gone by
When, wan as things that lie below the earth,
Things choked and buried, sunless and unsought,
This richest life was only lived in thought,
Seed without fruit, unconsummated birth?

Love, in that time when you have called me yours
And have with kisses long outbreathed old fears,
Love, let me not remember these! these hours,
Save with one smile to drown their thousand tears.
Then fold me in your bosom so deep away
That memory cannot touch this loveless day.

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2. Sonnets. 9. Love Needs not Two the Render It Complete
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5. Two Choruses from “Merlin in Broceliande”

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