Love Poem

Elizabeth SmartElizabeth Smart

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You are buried in my pillow of fever
And burn heavily in my eyeballs. Your odour
Pervades my bed, and will not be laid.Though you offer me an orphan future
Which I leave untouched on an unknown doorstep
Medicine is the touch of your lip.If you called as you do call from the bottom of the sea
I would hear you in my grave easily
I would step down to join you happily.Brushing the lies aside I shall leave my bed
I shall find you under the Rumanian dead
Under the wreck, still arched for attack.
Elizabeth Smart
About the poet

Elizabeth Smart

1913 - 1986/CanadianElizabeth Smart (December 27, 1913 – March 4, 1986) was a Canadian poet and novelist. Her book, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, detailed her romance with the poet George Barker. She is the subject of the 1991 biography, By He…

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