Songs & sonnets / by Edgar Lee Masters as Webster Ford [electronic text]

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Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950

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Chicago: Rooks Press

1910

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"Songs & sonnets / by Edgar Lee Masters as Webster Ford [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAH7961.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.

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                    XX
                    
                      Sometimes, meseems, your voice no longer shows
                    
                      Harsh intonation, and your laugh has grown
                    
                      All music in the year that now is flown.
                    
                      Sometimes, meseems, your heart has turned a rose,
                    
                      All sweetness.  Not remembering the snows,
                    
                      The blight and frosts of winters that are gone.
                    
                      And yet, betimes, the old unwelcome tone
                    
                      Turns the soft poem of your voice to prose,
                    
                      And your heart hardens to a scentless bud.
                    
                      Something within your life has made you rock,
                    
                      O'er which thin earth defeats deep husbandry.
                    
                      Oh, deeper than the guilt of shedding blood,
                    
                      The guilt that taught your gentle soul to mock—
                    
                      Twice guilty that the dole was kept for me!