Versos English Edward Powys Mathers A Conceit

English poem

A Conceit

by (1892–1939)

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I hide my love, I will not say her name. And yet since I confess I love, her name is told. You know that if I love It must be ... Whom? From the Arabic of Ebn Kalakis Abu El Fath Nasrallah (eleventh century).