sentence starters from poems between women ed. emma donoghue.
feat. poems by mary masters, charlotte lennox, dora greenwell, bessie rayner parkes, christina rossetti, emily dickinson, adah isaacs menken, sophie jewett, amy levy, charlotte mew, amy lowell, elsa gidlow, alice v. stuart, minnie bruce pratt, mary dorcey and dionne brand. feel free to change phrasing, poetic language, etc. as necessary for your character!
âYou fix a dagger in my heart.â
âHave I not wrongâd thee by unkind distrust?â
âI lose myself within thy mind.â
âLight and thought and hope are so knit up in you.â
âEarth is not good enough for you.â
âCome to me in the silence of the night.â
âCome in the speaking silence of a dream.â
âHeaven â is what i cannot reach!â
âIf you love me, answer me â oh, answer me!â
âIs there not a gleam of peace on all this tiresome earth?â
âWhen will all this toil and pain bring me the blessing?â
âI am like an unlessoned child, who cries for the sweet sensual things of touch and sight.â
âI want to read the gladness in your eyes.â
âI want your voice though but to speak my name.â
âIt is our secret, only ours, since all the world is blind.â
âI who can make other women smile did not make you â but no man can move mountains in a day.â
âI want to see the world that lies behind the strangeness of your eyes.â
âI am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you.â
âTime has not laid a finger on your loveliness.â
âYou hold me as a glass holds water.â
âWe bury and dig each other up for love.â
âThen what am I to do with all these memories heavy and full?â
âI had it in mind that I would be an old woman with you.â