Tapestry of Faith: Exploring Our Values Through Poetry: A Program for High School Youth

Handout 2: To A Young Girl

My dear, my dear, I know

More than another

What makes your heart beat so;

Not even your own mother

Can know it as I know,

Who broke my heart for her

When the wild thought,

That she denies

And has forgot,

Set all her blood astir

And glittered in her eyes.

From The Wild Swans at Cooley (1919).