1.
He required of her
pity
and shared with her
love
and, if lifelong protectiveness
be mercy
and patience, peace,
their marriage
was divine:
'in lovely copulation
bliss on bliss'
2.
Engravings on their walls,
drawings and watercolors,
Catherine,
his younger brother Robert,
singing his songs
over green tea and lemonade
with the Bluestocking Mrs. Mathews,
a nondescript volume
called POETICAL SKETCHES,
conversation and confrontation
('no time for seeming
and little bits of compliment') ,
the platonism of Thos. Taylor,
'happy Islanders' of the moon
in a satiric burlesque:
infinite London,
seen only within the mundane
London town.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem