Pearls
Nora Hopper Chesson
1871 to 1906
I am the happiest woman in this chamber
Filled full of happy women, though I know
I gave my pearls for a pale string of amber
That has forgot the sea that loved it so.
I do not grudge my pearls — they would grow duller
Left in my keeping; now they are most fair,
Sea-changes shall not dim their moonlight colour
Although they grace another woman's hair.
I gave my pearls — if careless grow the keeping,
In after years the fault were surely mine:
And I shall mourn it ere I fall to sleeping.
To-night I drink delight poured out like wine;
To-night my heart is light as any feather,
I wear no pearls, I have no tears to shed,
To-night I wear heart's-ease and joy together.
May my pearls bring few tears — when I am dead!
Nora Hopper Chesson's Pearls
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