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008			180126s1959 ph a 000 p eng d
040			_cQCPL _erda
082			_a899.2101
100	1		_aEstrada, Nina _eauthor
245	1	0	_aHeart of clay _b: a collection of love sonnets _c/ Nina Estrada
264		1	_aManila : _bCarmelo & Bavermann, _c[1959]
300			_axii, 114 pages : _billustrations
336			_2rdacontent _atext
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume
505	0		_aMake me the liquid by your vase contained
505	0		_aOne glance at you and all my peace is gone
505	0		_aWhen I remember how I closed against
505	0		_aOnce more this anguish seethes within my breast
505	0		_aI burn your letters into ashes gray
505	0		_aThere is no answer to this "wherefore? why?"
505	0		_aAnd yet beneath the heart's disquiet lies
505	0		_aMy heart beats in remembered harmonies
505	0		_aI wonder if you'll ever realize
505	0		_aI keep remembering your eyes somehow
505	0		_aNo sleep upon these eyes somehow
505	0		_aNo sleep upon these eyes can ever descend
505	0		_aBy candle-light you held my hand. Gently
505	0		_aDepart from me. The likes of you and I
505	0		_aHere will I lie expecting you, dear love
505	0		_aYes, come to me tomorrow. Come and try
505	0		_aWear high and proudly your defeat, my heart
505	0		_aBut how can pride exist between us, Love
505	0		_aTo think that once within these hands was cupped
505	0		_aHow can I drink of lesser waters, I
505	0		_aIf there be neither soul nor life hereafter
505	0		_aI saw the lights of Hongkong glinting gold
505	0		_a'Your eyes of velvet". Thus you circumscribed
505	0		_aHere then your picture. Here the kiss that I
505	0		_aYour letter came. With fumbling fingers cold
505	0		_aBeckon with but your eyes and I shall flay
505	0		_aDearest, it is for you alone that I
505	0		_aFor you have made a fool of me, destroyed
505	0		_aI have but heart to five, my precious one
505	0		_aIf beauty excites you, then I wish I were
505	0		_aSo like a startled maya bird, awya
505	0		_aBut, Love, I did not ask that you explain
505	0		_aConfused, perplexed, you watch my eyes grow dim
505	0		_aHere where the blazing brilliant blues of sky
505	0		_aSay not that we are far apart, beloved
505	0		_aAcross the land and seas that separate
505	0		_aHow can you prate to me of love, when love
505	0		_aWith the blush of virgin day you shall yet come
505	0		_aA fairy died somewhere, somehow today
505	0		_aIf we must part, beloved, let us part in peace
505	0		_aWhen we shall part (for this we surely shall)
505	0		_aFarewell, my love, the end is yet to be
505	0		_aDearest, I wake. The dream is gone and now
505	0		_aI heard the bells of Kyoto ringing clear
505	0		_aStifle back the sob. It is worth naught
505	0		_aWho said the mind remembered? Ah, no lie
505	0		_aAnd so we smile forlorn, estranged, resigned
505	0		_aA world stands between us now. Across
505	0		_aConfess you love, 'tis all I ned to know?
505	0		_aShall I, with smile receive your smile; my hand
505	0		_a"Tis not the loss I mourn sine I possessed
505	0		_aCome, come down, Heloise for you and I
505	0		_aI shall not yield although he storms my castle
505	0		_aBetrayed, the coward heart upon its knees
505	0		_aOn one another yeat we shall in time
505	0		_aAnd yet when all is done, why speak of vengeance?
505	0		_aWho speaks of death when life is in the offing?
650			_aPhilippine poetry (English)
650			_aLove poetry, English _zPhilippines
690			_aLiterature _910993
942			_2ddc _cBOOK
999			_c9351 _d9350