The Dark Cavalier
by Margaret Widdemer
I am the Dark Cavalier; I am the Last Lover:
My arms shall welcome you when other arms are tired;
I stand to wait for you, patient in the darkness,
Offering forgetfulness of all that you desired.
I ask no merriment, no pretense of gladness,
I can love heavy lids and lips without their rose;
Though you are sorrowful you will not weary me;
I will not go from you when all the tired world goes.
I am the Dark Cavalier; I am the Last Lover;
I promise faithfulness no other lips may keep;
Safe in my bridal place, comforted by darkness,
You shall lie happily, smiling in your sleep.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Watercolor Of Grantchester Meadows by Sylvia Plath
- The House Where We Were Wed by Will McKendree Carleton
- Kumarakom (after the boat tragedy) by Shreekumar Varma
- dear owl, forlorn like King Lear by Raj Arumugam
- Федор Сологуб – Словно лепится сурепица
- About The Sheltered Garden Ground by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Владимир Высоцкий – Вы были у Беллы
- Владимир Британишский – Есть добрая, есть и дурная слава
- Bitterness by Philip Levine
- Gertrude of Wyoming by Thomas Campbell
- Vision by Siegfried Sassoon
- Locations and Times. by Walt Whitman
- To Be of Use by Marge Piercy
- Flowers Of The Dust by John Oxenham
- Ojira To Her Lover
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