00000cam a22000004a 4500 UP-99796217604720644 Buklod 20230503092542.0 a r 000 0 ta 061213s2005 xx r |||| u|eng d 9715424643 (sb) (iLib)UPD-00000280270 DML eng DMLUC PS 9993 P9 H4 2005 Puyat, Nina Estrada Heart of clay a collection of love sonnets Nina Estrada. Centennial ed. Quezon City University of the Philippines Press 2005,c1959. xv, 118 p. ill. Make me the liquid by your vase contained -- One glance at you and all my peace is gone -- When I remember how I closed against -- Once more this anguish seethes within my breast -- I burn your letters into ashes gray -- There is no answer to this "Whereforen Whyn'' -- And yet beneath the heart's disquiet lies -- My heart beats in remembered harmonies -- I wonder if you'll ever realize -- I keep remembering your eyes somehow -- No sleep upon these eyes can ever descend -- By candle-light you held my hand. Gently -- Depart from me. The likes of you and I -- Here will I lie expecting you, dear love -- Yes, come to me tomorrow. Come and try -- Wear high and proudly your defeat, my heart -- But how can pride exist between us, love -- To think that once within these hand was cupped -- How can I drink of lesser waters, I -- If there be neither soul nor life hereafter -- I saw the lights of Hongkong glinting gold -- "Your eyes of velvet."Thus you circumscribed -- Here then your picture. Here the kiss that I -- Your letter came. With fumbling fingers cold -- Beckon with but your eyes and I shall fly -- Dearest, it is for you alone that I -- For you have made a fool of me, destroyed -- I have but heart to give, my precious one -- If beauty excites you, then I wish I were -- So like a starled maya bird, away -- But, love, I did not ask that you explain -- Confused, perplexed, you watch my eyes grow dim -- Here where the blazing brilliant blues of sky -- Say not that we are far apart, beloved -- Across the land and seas that separate -- How can you prate to me of love, when love -- With the blush of virgin day you shall yet come -- A fairy died somewhere, somehow today -- If we must part, beloved, let us part in peace -- When we shall part (for this we surely shall) -- Farewell, my love, the end is yet to be -- Dearest, I wake. The dream is gone and now -- I heard the bells of Kyoto ringing clear -- Stifle back the sob. It is worth naught -- Who said the mind rememberedn Ah, no lie -- And so we smile: forlorn, estranged, resigned -- A world stands between us now. Across -- Confess your love, 'tis all I need to known -- Shall I, with smile recieve your smile; my hand -- 'Tis not the loss I mourn since I possessed -- Come, come down, Heloise, for you and I -- I shall not yield although he storms my castle -- Betrayed, the coward heart upon its knees -- On one another yet we shall in time -- And yet when all is done, why speak of vengeancen -- Who speaks of death when life is in the offingn Sonnets, Philippine (English) Love poetry. Book FI UP Textual UPD DCAL PS 9993 P9 H4 2005 UPD DMLF PS 9993 P9 H4 2005 UPD DMLF PS 9993 P9 H4 2005 In stacks Book