The lad came to the door at night,
When lovers crown their vows,
And whistled soft and out of sight
In shadow of the boughs.
“I shall not vex you with my face
Henceforth, my love, for aye;
So take me in your arms a space
Before the cast is grey.
“When I from hence away am past
I shall not find a bride,
And you shall be the first and last
I ever lay beside.”
She heard and went and knew not why;
Her heart to his she laid;
Light was the air beneath the sky
But dark under the shade.
“Oh do you breathe, lad, that your breast
Seems not to rise and fall,
And here upon my bosom prest
There beats no heart at all?”
“Oh loud, my girl, it once would knock,
You should have felt it then;
But since for you I stopped the clock
It never goes again.”
“Oh lad, what is it, lad, that drips
Wet from your neck on mine?
What is it falling on my lips,
My lad, that tastes of brine?”
“Oh like enough ’tis blood, my dear,
For when the knife was slit,
The throat across from ear to ear
‘Twill bleed because of it.”
Under the stars the air was light
But dark below the boughs,
The still air of the speechless night,
When lovers crown their vows.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Яков Полонский – Последний вздох
- The Munich Mannequins by Sylvia Plath
- Владислав Крапивин – Маленький принц
- Алексей Толстой – В совести искал я долго обвиненья
- Кондратий Рылеев – Гусь и змия
- Галина Гампер – Здесь сегодня все пошло с молотка
- Sonnet 46: Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war by William Shakespeare
- The Modern Lyricist As Poet
- Overnight at the Riverside Tower by Tu Fu
- The Death of Cromwell poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- There was a Child went Forth. by Walt Whitman
- But Outer Space by Robert Frost
- Robert Burns: The Laddie’s Dear Sel’:
- I am only the house of your beloved by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- No Worst, There Is None. Pitched Past Pitch Of Grief poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
