An Audio Guide to Poetry Recitation - 27. "I Think I Should Have

An Audio Guide to Poetry Recitation - 27. "I Think I Should Have Loved You Presently"


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And now Alyssa Milano reads a very different sort of love poem, I Think I Should Have Loved You Presently by Edna St. Vincent Millay, a poem about a love affair coming to an end.

I Think I Should Have Loved You Presently
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
[Read by Alyssa Milano]

I think I should have loved you presently,
And given in earnest words I flung in jest;
And lifted honest eyes for you to see,
And caught your hand against my cheek and breast;
And all my pretty follies flung aside
That won you to me, and beneath your gaze,
Naked of reticence and shorn of pride,
Spread like a chart my little wicked ways.
I, that had been to you, had you remained,
But one more waking from a recurrent dream,
Cherish no less the certain stakes I gained,
And walk your memory’s halls, austere, supreme,
A ghost in marble of a girl you knew
Who would have loved you in a day or two.
 

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• People sometimes will miss the lost love. Thanks 肖庄 for sharing, -南山松- ♀ (86 bytes) () 01/12/2015 postreply 19:26:51

• People surely do. You are welcome Songsong. -肖庄- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/14/2015 postreply 20:23:51