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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVE'S CASTLE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poet's Biography First Line: Key and bar, key and bar Last Line: And there they both remain. Subject(s): Love | |||
KEY and bar, key and bar, Iron bolt and chain! And what will you do when the King comes To enter his domain? Turn key and lift bar, Loose, oh, bolt and chain! Open the door and let him in, And then lock up again. But, oh, heart, and woe, heart, Why do you ache so sore? Never a moment's peace have you Since Love hath passed the door. Turn key and lift bar, And loose bolt and chain; But Love took in his esquire, Grief, And there they both remain. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD A BANJO SONG by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR |
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