Sullen Moods
Love, do not count your labour lost
Though I turn sullen, grim, retired
Even at your side; my thought is crossed
With fancies by old longings fired.
And when I answer you, some days
Vaguely and wildly, do not fear
That my love walks forbidden ways,
Breaking the ties that hold it here
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Robert Graves' poem "Sullen Moods" was published in Georgian Poetry 1920-1922. To read this poem in full in a digitized version of this publicaiton, follow the link(s) below: