Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.
By Lyrics. III. Yea, Gold Is Son of ZeusMichael Field (Katherine Harris Bradley) (1846–1914)
(From “Long Ago,” XXXVI )
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Its timeless light can stain;
The worm that brings man’s flesh to dust
Assaults its strength in vain:
More gold than gold the love I sing,
A hard, inviolable thing.
With waning years; my heart
Is incorruptible as gold,
’Tis my immortal part:
Nor is there any god can lay
On love the finger of decay.