Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.
By Innocencies (1905). II. The MeetingKatharine Tynan Hinkson (18611931)
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Upon the stairs we met and kissed, I and my tender Joy.
Oh! fond and true, as lovers do, we kissed and clasped and parted;
And I went up and he went down, refreshed and happy-hearted.
And in the silence heart to heart spoke for a little space
Of tender things and thoughts on wings, and secrets none discovers;
And I went up and he went down, a pair of happy lovers.
Oh, little heart that beat so fast like any fluttering bird’s!
“I love,” his silence said; “I love,” my silence answered duly;
And I went up and he went down comforted wonderfully.