Versos English Joyce Kilmer Slender Your Hands

English poem

Slender Your Hands

by (1886–1918)

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Slender your hands and soft and white As petals of moon-kissed roses; Yet the grasp of your fingers slight My passionate heart encloses.

Innocent eyes like delicate spheres That are born when day is dying; Yet the wisdom of all the years Is in their lovelight lying.