Alice Meynell
Renouncement

I must not think of thee; and, tired yet strong, 
I shun the thought that lurks in all delight

 - The thought of thee - and in the blue Heaven's height, 
And in the sweetest passage of a song. 
Oh, lust beyond the fairest thoughts that throng 
This breast, the thought of thee waits, hidden yet bright; 
But it must never, never come in sight; 
I must stop short of thee the whole day long. 
But when sleep comes to close each difficult day, 
When night gives pause to the long watch I keep, 
And all my bonds I needs must loose apart, 
Must doff my will as raiment laid away,