poet-writer

Updated: May 5, 2025

She turned over the volume abstractedly, scarcely conscious of the action, and suddenly, as if the poet-writer of it had been present to probe her soul and make her inmost thoughts public, she read: "Because I am unlov'd of thee to-day, And undesired as sea-weeds in the sea!" Yes! that was the "because" of everything that swayed her sorrowful spirit, "because" she was "unlov'd and undesired."

Marie Corelli - Thelma