James Joyce
The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs
night by silent sailing night
Isobel
wildwoods eyes and primarose hair
quietly
all the woods so wild
in mauves of moss and daphne dews
how all so still she lay
'neath of the white thorn
child of tree
like some lost happy leaf
like blowing flower stilled
as fain would she anon
for soon again 'twill be
win me, woo me, wed me
ah! weary me
deeply
now even calm lay sleeping
night
Isobel
Sister Isobel
Saintette Isobel
Madame Isa Veuve La Belle