--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Unknown collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 27 number: 4 published: 1924-02 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "Unknown, “For Her,” *Improvement Era 27, no. 4 (February 1924)*: 331–331." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2704unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera2704unse start_page: 331 end_page: 331 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1924-02) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2704unse publication_year: 1924 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1924, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # For Her FOR HER Reading the Love-Sonnet 'Tis love, not gold, that is the poet's need, Its wealth the world makes his in slender dole; Yet shall the poet false be to his creed? — Though the gold lingers, love makes glad his soul. Without love's payment still the poet starves, Love fills life's silences with love's own chimes; For love the artist paints, the sculptor carves, The poet in his love makes live his rhymes. My voice to steady, O in vain, I tried, And dared not look into thine earnest eyes; The words that trembled all my care belied; Thy cheek now pale now flush in vermil dyes: Yet thine one sigh, in worth, is more than gold, Therein, for me, was love's sweet message told. Alfred Lambourne.