Poems (Jackson)/Won

For works with similar titles, see Won.

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WON.
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WEARIED at last and sad, I cried "Refuse"Me what thou wilt, my queen! At thy dear feetHenceforth I lie and sleep, and dream, and eatThy locusts and wild honey. Thou mayst choose,Perhaps, that I the latchet of thy shoesOne day unfasten. Ever incomplete ​Leave my desire, too bold, to see thy sweet,Unveiled face; to know what words they useWho serve around thy throne."Who serve around thy throne."Lo! as I lay,In such surrender, on that summer day,And sought not, stirred not, came the radiant queen,Sweeping me with her robe of leafy green,And kissed me everywhere that kiss could go;While all her royal train I longed to know,The swallow leading, crowded up to teachMe all the secrets of their song and speech.

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