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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

Loss

Richard Aldington

THIS is not hell—

At least, merely a comfortable hell,

With warmth and food and some still moments

Ere the true hell comes rushing in again.

Yet this one thought is torture:

Have I lost her, lost her indeed?—

Lost the calm eyes and eager lips of love,

The two-fold amorous breasts and braided hair,

The white slim body my senses fed upon,

And all the secret shadows shot with fire?