Modern Love SongAuthor(s): Robert NicholsSource: Poetry, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Jul., 1919), p. 184Published by: Poetry FoundationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20572170 .

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POETRY: a Magazine of Verse

TWO SONGS OF THE ENIGMA For L. F. S.

MODERN LOVE SONG

Now that the evenfall is come And the sun fills the flaring trees,

And everything is mad, lit, dumb, And in the pauses of the breeze

A far voice seems to call me home To haven beyond woods and leas

I feel again how sharply stings The spell which binds our troubled dust

With hint of divine frustrated things; The Soul's deep doubt and desperate trust

That she at sunset shall find wings To bear her beyond NOWT and Must.

So place your head against my head And set your lips upon my lips,

That so I may be comforted; For ah! the world so from me slips,

To the world-sunset I am sped Where Soul and Silence come to grips And Love stands sore-astonished.

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