At a Dinner Party
Title
At a Dinner Party
Creator
Amy Levy
Source
A London Plane Tree and Other Verse
Publisher
T. Fisher Unwin Paternoster Sq.
Date
1889
Text
At a Dinner Party.
WITH fruit and flowers the board is deckt,
The wine and laughter flow ;
I'll not complain—could one expect
So dull a world to know ?
You look across the fruit and flowers,
My glance your glances find.—
It is our secret, only ours,
Since all the world is blind.
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Citation
Amy Levy, “At a Dinner Party,” Victorian Queer Archive, accessed May 17, 2024, https://victorianqueerarchive.omeka.net/items/show/55.