Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. V. Browning to Rupert Brooke
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (18611907)Unwelcome
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And the door stood open at our feast,
When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes
And a man with his back to the East.
The loudest voice was still.
The jest died away on our lips as they passed,
And the rays of July struck chill.
The white bread black as soot.
The hound forgot the hand of her lord,
She fell down at his foot.
Ere I sit me down again at a feast,
When there passes a woman with the West in her eyes
And a man with his back to the East.