Stalemated their armies stood, with tottering banners: She flung from a room Still ringing with bruit of insults and dishonors And in fury left him Glowering at the coal-fire: ‘Come find me’—her last taunt. He did not come But sat on, guarding his grim battlement. By the doorstep Her winter-beheaded daisies, marrowless, gaunt, Warned her to keep Indoors with politic goodwill, not haste Into a landscape Of stark wind-harrowed hills and weltering mist; But from the house She stalked intractable as a driven ghost Across moor snows Pocked by rock-claw and rabbit-track: she must yet win Him to his knees— Let him send police and hounds to bring her in. Nursing her rage Through bare whistling heather, over stiles of black stone, To the world's white edge She came, and called hell to subdue an unruly man And join her siege. It was no fire-blurting fork-tailed demon Volcanoed hot From marble snow-heap of moor to ride that woman With spur and knout Down f...