FEINBERG/WHITMAN  LITERARY FILE   POETRY FILE  "Not My Enemies Ever Invade Me."   Proof Sheet.
Box 27 Folder 50
NOT MY ENEMIES EVER INVADE ME.

Not my enemies ever invade me -- no harm to my pride
     from them I fear;
But the lovers I recklessly love -- lo! how they master
     me!
Lo!  me, ever open and helpless, bereft of my strength!
Utterly abject, grovelling on the ground before them.