You weresunrise to merise and warm and streaming.' - Praise Song For My Mother by Charlotte Mew

You werewater to medeep and bold and fathoming' - Praise Song For My Mother by Charlotte Mew

You weremoon's eye to mepull and grained and mantling' - Praise Song For My Mother by Charlotte Mew

Now I will burn you back, I will burn you through,Though I am damned for it we two will lieAnd burn, here where the starlings fly