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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WELCOME, by RICHARD DEHMEL First Line: Do not come in any trailing dress! Last Line: And your bride-bed—the whole earth below you. | |||
Do not come in any trailing dress! but come running, till the sparks fly shining, with both arms flung wide in readiness! No soft steps are leading to my castle; torn cliffs, rather; put off train and tassel, brief the skirt that fits with love's designing! Do not stand before the glass to stare! In the night my woodland is forsaken, and you are most lovely brave and bare, with but pallid star-light on you gleaming; far away a haughty stag is screaming, and with cuckoo cries my wood is shaken. How your ear burns! how your bodice flutters! quick, undo these garments that foreshow you; oh, your heart is happy now, and stutters! Come, I'll carry you, you white, wild wonder, as God made you! tear your gauds asunder! and your bride-bed—the whole earth below you. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FROM ON OPPRESSED HEART by RICHARD DEHMEL HARVEST SONG by RICHARD DEHMEL MANY A NIGHT by RICHARD DEHMEL MOUNTAIN PSALM by RICHARD DEHMEL SONG BEFORE NIGHT by RICHARD DEHMEL SONG FOR ALL by RICHARD DEHMEL SONG TO MY SON by RICHARD DEHMEL THE BIG MERRY-GO-ROUND (A SONG FOR A CHILD) by RICHARD DEHMEL THE GOLDFINCH by RICHARD DEHMEL |
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