Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. V. Browning to Rupert Brooke
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (18611907)A Mother to Her Baby
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Where were you, dear?
Even I have known you
Only a year.
When I was born,
Twelve months ago you
Left me forlorn.
Heart of my heart?
Then I was all of you,
Now you are part.
We two were one.
We two are two now
While the days run.
Womanly, mild,
Is in herself, love,
Mother and child.