Louise Imogen Guiney was an American poet and essayist. She also worked as an editor, postmistress, and in the cataloging department of the Boston Public Library. Her works include Lovers’ Saint Ruth’s and Three Other Tales, a collection of short stories published in 1895 and Nine Sonnets Written at Oxford which was published the same year. She also wrote Blessed Edmund Campion and The Martyrs’ Idyl and Shorter Poems.
‘In the Reading-Room of the British Museum’ describes the strength that humankind is able to absorb from the reading of historical books.
Praised be the moon of books! that doth above
A world of men, the fallen Past behold,
And fill the spaces else so void and cold
‘Reserve’ by Louise Imogen Guiney tells of a man’s love for a listener to whom he has done some irreconcilable wrong.
You that are dear, O you above the rest!
Forgive him his evasive moods and cold;
The absence that belied him oft of old,
The war upon sad speech, the desperate jest,
‘The Light of the House’ by Louise Imogen Guiney describes the overwhelmingly positive memory that a dead man has on the day to day functions of a home.
Beyond the cheat of Time, here where you died, you live;
You pace the garden walk, secure and sensitive;
You linger on the stair: Love’s lonely pulses leap!
The harpsichord is shaken, the dogs look up from sleep.
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