Catherine Gables

What would you with me

Catherine Gables,

Turn my face

From my winter stables,

Call at the year

That my no-love lies in,

Treat the hurt

And the waste you're wise in,

Tease me and taunt

At the old love fables...

What would you with me,

Catherine Gables?

 

All of my shores

Are the grey of breakers

Seen from the tors of

Those same home-acres,

If there were time

And the old spark in me

I'd take heart

And a heart would win me,

Love was a dream

That I let slip past me;

What would you now,

Would you still unmask me?

 

If I could halt

At the port, no storm in

Red sky lit

At some shepherd's warning,

Maybe I’d take all the grief

That grieves me,

Bury it deep in the land

That needs me,

Bar the shutters

And bolt the stables,

Do what I would

With Catherine Gables!

 

David Lewis Paget

 

Reviews

[Linda Marie Van Tassell]

One of the things that I really love the most about your writing is your voice. I love your language, as it almost makes a sound, as if you are actually speaking the words in my ears.

What would I with you ...

Linda Marie Van Tassell