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A Spiritual Woman

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Close your eyes, my love, let me make you blind;     They have taught you to see     Only a mean arithmetic on the face of things,     A cunning algebra in the faces of men,     And God like geometry     Completing his circles, and working cleverly.     I'll kiss you over the eyes till I kiss you blind;     If I can - if any one could.     Then perhaps in the dark you'll have got what you want to find.     You've discovered so many bits, with your clever eyes,     And I'm a kaleidoscope     That you shake and shake, and yet it won't come to your mind.     Now stop carping at me. - But God, how I hate you!     Do you fear I shall swindle you?     Do you think if you take me as I am, that that will abate you     Somehow? - so sad, so intrinsic, so spiritual, yet so cautious, you     Must have me all in your will and your consciousness -     I hate you.

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"Close your eyes, my love, let me make you blind;..."

Exploring the themes of classic, D. H. Lawrence (David Herbert Richards) delivers a powerful performance in "A Spiritual Woman"... ### Why We Love This Line At Linespedia, we believe that poetry is the ultimate sanctuary for the soul...

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"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"

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