http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/heartsease Just another bbPress community en-US Fri, 24 May 2013 02:39:23 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/search.php http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/heartsease#post-290969 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 11:18:27 +0000 Senex72 290969@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>Heartsease</p> <p>If I could purge your picture from my soul,</p> <p>Love shed by that deep wound would fill the world,</p> <p>Not like a tempest that is onward hurled</p> <p>But gently, easing sadness, making whole</p> <p>Men’s harms, who else in life’s wild torrents roll</p> <p>Uncared for, hurt and hurting, while they’re whirled</p> <p>Midst envy, loss and doubt; but you unfurled</p> <p>Your life for me, your Beauty paid the toll </p> <p>I owed to grief, so left my life with joy. </p> <p>Each time we meet, you make my heart seem new</p> <p>As when, bewitched by birdsong as a boy,</p> <p>I walked enchanted through the morning dew;</p> <p>I can forget that I’m but fate’s poor toy:</p> <p>I only live because I live for you. </p>