The Poetry Corner

Morality

By Richard Le Gallienne

Give me the lifted skirt, And the brave ways of wrong, The fist, the dagger and the sword, And the out-spoken song. Ah! bring me not the love That bargains, bids and buys: For so much loving I will give So much in lips and eyes; But love with bosom bared, Sweet as a bird and wild, That in her savage maidenhood Cries for a little child.