ABSTRACT
For publication details and date of composition see Love in a Life, with which this poem has always been paired. The speaker is similarly relentless in his pursuit of an apparently unwilling (‘loth’) woman; cp. also, in this volume, Evelyn Hope (p. 29), Mesmerism (p. 475), and Serenade (p. 487); and Numpholeptos (Pacchiarotto, 1876).
