Selected Poems Quotes

“It was not you, it was your eyes – I spoke to them.”
― Charlotte Mew, Selected Poems: Charlotte Mew

“But first I want your life: - before I die I want to see
The world that lies behind the strangeness of your eyes
There is nothing gay or green there for my gathering, it may be,
Yet on brown fields there lies
A haunting purple bloom: is there not something in grey skies
And in grey sea?
I want what world there is behind your eyes,”
― Charlotte Mew, Selected Poems: Charlotte Mew

“She did not love You like the rest.”
― Charlotte Mew, Selected Poems: Charlotte Mew

“I have been through the gates, I have
groped, I have crept
Back, back. There is dust in the streets, and blood; they are empty; darkness is over them;
His heart is a place with the lights gone out, forsaken by great winds and the heavenly
rain, unclean and unswept,
Like the heart of the holy city, old, blind, beautiful Jerusalem,
Over which Christ wept.”
― Charlotte Mew, Selected Poems: Charlotte Mew

“The scent of the unsilenced sea would linger on
In these dark waves, and round the silence that was you.”
― Charlotte Mew, Selected Poems: Charlotte Mew

“I want to see the world that lies behind the strangeness of your eyes.”
― Charlotte Mew, Selected Poems: Charlotte Mew