If I had loved you, soon, ah, soon I had lost you. Had I been kind you had kissed me and gone your faithless way. The kiss that I would not give is the kiss that your lips are hold…
Aline Murray Kilmer was born in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1888. Wife of the poet Joyce Kilmer, she was the author of five books of essays and poetry, most of which concerned war and loss, and two collections of children’s stories. Kilmer died in New Jersey in 1941. Bibliography Poetry Selected Poems (Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929) The Poor King's Daughter and Other Poems (George H. Doran Company, 1925) Vigils (George H. Doran Company, 1921) Candles That Burn (George H. Doran Company, 1919) Prose A Buttonwood Summer (Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929) Emmy, Nicky and Greg (George H. Doran Company, 1927) Hunting a Hair Shirt and Other Spiritual Adventure (George H. Doran company, 1923)