The Phantom Guest

Natalie Clifford Barney

We lay in shade diaphanous
And spoke the light that burns in us

As in the glooming's net I caught her,
She shimmered like reflected water!

Romantic and emphatic moods
Are not for her whom life eludes...

Its vulgar tinsel round her fold?
She'd rather shudder with the cold,

Attend just this elusive hour,
A shadow in a shadow bower,

A moving imagery so fine,
It must have been her soul near mine

And so we blended and possessed
Each in each the phantom guest,

Inseparate, we scarcely met;
Yet other love-nights we forget!

This poem is in the public domain.

About This Poem

This poem was originally published in Poems & Poèmes (George H. Doran, 1920).

Natalie Clifford Barney was born in 1876 in Dayton, Ohio. During her lifetime, she published five poetry collections, including Poems & Poèmes: Autres Alliances (Emile Paul, 1920) and The One Who Is Legion (Eric Partridge, 1930). She also published three volumes of epigrams, two essay collections, one novel, and three memoirs. She died in 1972 at her home in Paris, France.

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