April Twilights and Other Poems

<h3><SPAN name="LENVOI" id="LENVOI"></SPAN>L’ENVOI</h3> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><span class="letra">W</span>here are the loves that we have loved before<br/></span> <span class="i0">When once we are alone, and shut the door?<br/></span> <span class="i0">No matter whose the arms that held me fast,<br/></span> <span class="i0">The arms of Darkness hold me at the last.<br/></span> <span class="i0">No matter down what primrose path I tend,<br/></span> <span class="i0">I kiss the lips of Silence in the end.<br/></span> <span class="i0">No matter on what heart I found delight,<br/></span> <span class="i0">I come again unto the breast of Night.<br/></span> <span class="i0">No matter when or how love did befall,<br/></span> <span class="i0">’Tis Loneliness that loves me best of all,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And in the end she claims me, and I know<br/></span> <span class="i0">That she will stay, though all the rest may go.<br/></span> <span class="i0">No matter whose the eyes that I would keep<br/></span> <span class="i0">Near in the dark, ’tis in the eyes of Sleep<br/></span> <span class="i0">That I must look and look forever more,<br/></span> <span class="i0">When once I am alone, and shut the door.<br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_45" id="page_45">{45}</SPAN></span></div> </div></div> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_46" id="page_46">{46}</SPAN></span>&nbsp; </p> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_47" id="page_47">{47}</SPAN></span>&nbsp; </p> <h2><SPAN name="PART_II" id="PART_II"></SPAN>PART II</h2> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />