Lesbian Love Poems
GILLIAN SPRAGGS, EDITOR
love shook my senses
The Road to Kerity
Do you remember the two old people we passed
on the road to Kerity,
Resting their sack on the stones, by the drenched
wayside,
Looking at us with their lightless eyes through the
driving rain, and then out again
To the rocks, and the long white line of the tide:
Frozen ghosts that were children once, husband
and wife, father, and mother,
Looking at us with those frozen eyes; have you ever
seen anything quite so chilled or so old?
But we – with our arms about each other,
We did not feel the cold!
Charlotte Mew
Charlotte Mew (1869–1928) was born
in London, and lived there throughout her life. She published stories and poems
in The Yellow Book, but broke her connection at the time of Oscar Wilde's arrest,
in 1895. In 1913 she met and fell in love with the novelist May Sinclair, who
was horrified by her declaration, and made her the subject of cruel gossip. Her
first collection of poems, The Farmer's Bride (1916) was published by the Poetry
Bookshop. Her second, The Rambling Sailor, appeared the year after her death by
suicide.
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Love Shook My Senses: Lesbian Love Poems
edited by Gillian Spraggs
The Women’s Press, London
ISBN 0 7043 4581 1
softcover, xvii + 167 pages
edited by Gillian Spraggs
The Women’s Press, London
ISBN 0 7043 4581 1
softcover, xvii + 167 pages
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