Arthur Seymour John Tessimond I Love You Poems

• 1. The British
  We are a people living in shells and moving
  Crablike; reticent, awkward, deeply suspicious;
  Watching the world from a corner of half-closed eyelids,
  Afraid lest someone show that he hates or loves us,
  ...
• 2. Black Morning Lovesong
  In love's dances, in love's dances
  One retreats and one advances,
  One grows warmer and one colder,
  One more hesitant, one bolder.
  ...
• 3. Birch Tree
  The birch tree in winter
  Leaning over the secret pool
  Is Narcissus in love
  With the slight white branches,
  ...
• 4. Unlyric Love Song
  It is time to give that-of-myself which I could not at first:
  To offer you now at last my least and my worst:
  Minor, absurd preserves,
  The shell's end-curves,
  ...
• 5. Not Love Perhaps
  This is not Love, perhaps,
  Love that lays down its life,
  that many waters cannot quench,
  nor the floods drown,
  ...

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