Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CUPID IN AMBUSH, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE


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CUPID IN AMBUSH, by                    
First Line: When I went down the autumn lane
Last Line: I knew I should not laugh again.
Subject(s): Cupid; Grief; Love; Love - Complaints; Eros; Sorrow; Sadness


WHEN I went down the autumn lane
My heart was free from fear and pain,
I whistled lightly as I passed
The spot where pulses once ran fast,
Nor thought me that my head should whirl
Again at sight of any girl,
Since now that no love fettered me
I felt I should be ever free;
So down the brush-banked autumn lane
I laughed at former fears and pain.

When I came out the autumn lane
I knew I should not laugh again,
For in my lightsome, leaf-strewn path
Cupid in ambush lay in wrath,
And scarce my heart could utter cry,
He pierced it through, and I shall die,
For when one's heart is thus waylaid
There is no cure but shroud and spade —
When I came out the autumn lane
I knew I should not laugh again.





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