Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SORCERY, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go on your way, and let me pass Last Line: Before the year is done. Subject(s): Magic | ||||||||
Go on your way, and let me pass. You stop a wild despair. I would that I were turned to brass Like that chained lion there, Which, couchant by the postern gate, In weather foul or fair, Looks down serenely desolate, And nothing does but stare! Ah, what's to me the burgeoned year, The sad leaf or the gay? Let Launcelot and Queen Guinevere Their falcons fly this day. 'T will be as royal sport, pardie, As falconers have tried At Astolat -- but let me be! I would that I had died. There was a woman in the glade: Her hair was soft and brown, And long bent silken lashes weighed Her ivory eyelids down. I kissed her hand, I called her blest, I held her leal and fair -- She turned to shadow on my breast, And melted into air! And, lo! about me, fold on fold, A writhing serpent hung -- An eye of jet, a skin of gold, A garnet for a tongue! O, let the petted falcons fly Right merry in the sun; But let me be! for I shall die Before the year is done. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI by JOHN KEATS FIRMILIAN; A TRAGEDY by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN A LAY OF ST. DUNSTAN by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM THE LORD OF THOULOUSE; A LEGEND OF LANGUEDOC by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM SHRODON FEAR: THE VU'ST PEART by WILLIAM BARNES THE ROMANCE OF THE LILY by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES THE SECOND BROTHER; AN UNFINISHED DRAMA by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES DAWN MAGIC by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN AFTER THE RAIN by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH AN ALPINE PICTURE by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH AN ODE ON THE UNVEILING OF THE SHAW MEMORIA BOSTON COMMON, MAY 31, 1897 by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH |
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