Eight O'Clock

Eight O'Clock

Original Text
Flame and Shadow (New York: Macmillan, 1924): 44. PS 3539 E15F6 Robarts Library
1Supper comes at five o'clock,
3My lover comes at eight o'clock --
4    But eight o'clock is far.
5How could I bear my pain all day
6    Unless I watched to see
7The clock-hands laboring to bring
8    Eight o'clock to me.

Notes

2] The planet Venus appears to follow the sun as it rises and falls in the sky. Back to Line
Publication Start Year
1924
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
2004
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