Friday Poetry: Radclyffe Hall

Happy Friday!

I hope you all have some good books planned for the weekend.

My chosen poem for today is by the English poet and author Marguerite Antonia Radclyffe Hall (1880-19430). Hall is best known for her novel The Well of Loneliness.

On the Hill-Side

A Memory

You lay so still in the sunshine,
So still in that hot sweet hour -
That the timid things of the forest land
Came close; a butterfly lit on your head, 
Mistaking it for a flower. 

You scarecly breathed in your slumber,
So dreamless it was, so deep -
While the warm air stirred in my veins like wine,
The air that had blown through a jasmine vine,
But you slept-and I let you sleep. 

Radclyffe Hall

Happy Reading

Etsy

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