Elsa Gidlow

Elsa Gidlow

Elsa Gidlow (1898-1986)

I lived from 1898-1986. I was from Canada, and am in the Americas category.

My poetry

• For the Goddess Too Well Known

  I have robbed the garrulous streets,
  Thieved a fair girl from their blight,

  23 lines
• Chains Of Fires

  Each dawn, kneeling before my hearth,
  Placing stick, crossing stick

  38 lines
• Love’s Acolyte

  Many have loved you with lips and fingers
  And lain with you till the moon went out;

  13 lines
• Chance

  Strange that a single white iris
  Given carelessly one slumbering spring midnight

  24 lines
• Constancy

  You’re jealous if I kiss this girl and that,
  You think I should be constant to one mouth?

  19 lines