III
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
· (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of A Woman's Shortcomings
Go, lady! lean to the night-guitar,
And drop a smile to the bringer;
Then smile as sweetly, when he is far,
At the voice of an in-door singer!
Bask tenderly beneath tender eyes;
Glance lightly, on their removing;
And join new vows to old perjuries—
But dare not call it loving!