#onepoetry

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“Poems for L.” by Ann Wooster

Volume 7 Issue 11 / November 1959

“1. The great stars wheel in the sky

Imperceptibly dying;

And I who love you, Atthis,

Why do I demand a better augur?

2. I was glad when you said,

Your body the length of mine,

"Who are you?"

3. Do not be afraid when you cannot

Keep me in your mind.

I want to be a sweet habit

That you never remember,

That you never forget.

4. I see the young men look at you,

I see the young girls bring you gifts

I am frightened by your beauty, Atthis,

By the longing that turns you to me.

-Ann Wooster

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"Sonnet" by William V. Stone

Volume 9, Issue 3 / March 1961

[ID: Love, let me sing the splendor of your thighs

And that soft line irradiating from

Your back, nor to false modesty succumb:

These are chaste and lovely as your eyes.

The shoulder's softness and the breast's surmise,

The silken waist nor the sweet buttocks shun,

Nor last - though Love, there be a shamefast some

Who would defame it with a false surmise -

Last, last and loveliest, that store the wealth

Lies hidden in the sanctuary place

Where love alone may enter and not die,

Although if the intruder there by stealth

Be smitten, having ravaged for a space,

I should not grudge it, were the intruder I ]

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"Night" by Norma Ramsey

Volume 3, Issue 4 / April 1955

[ID: The background image is a yellow abstract image of a person with long hair sleeping in a bed, the text is written out over the art in a handwritten font. Reads as follows

Out of the night into my heart

bring your love

to comfort me as I lie sleeping,

to smooth away my furrowed brow,

dry my tear-stained eye.

Out of this night with all your prayer

bring me forth

renewed, endowed with light

that I might find

My rightful place.]