Collected Poems: With Autobiographical and Critical Fragments ::

Collected Poems: With Autobiographical and Critical Fragments

By Frederic W. H. Myers: Edited by his Wife Eveleen Myers

Myers, Frederic William Henry (1843-1901)

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[She wears her body like a veil]

She wears her body like a veil,
And very life is shining through;
Her voice comes ringing on a gale
Of spirit-passion wild and new;
O soul without a mate or name,
Divine and mortal, maid and boy,
Shine out, and with a cry proclaim
The unguessed infinity of joy!

University of Virginia Library

[She wears her body like a veil]