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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A WOMAN, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: They loved each other, in joy or grief Last Line: A bumper of wine and still gaily laughed. Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Laughter; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Male-female Relations | |||
They loved each other, in joy or grief: He was a sharper, and she, a thief. At each new tale of her lover's craft She fell on her pillow and gaily laughed. All day, they revelled with mirth and jest; All night, she slumbered upon his breast. They dragged him to jail—like a creature daft She stood at the window and gaily laughed. He wrote her a letter: "Oh! come to me: I sigh for thy presence; I pine for thee." She read each word of the ill-scrawled draft— Then shook her head and still gaily laughed. At six, he was hanged in the sight of Heaven— His body was flung in a ditch, at seven— And at eight in the morning, his mistress quaffed A bumper of wine and still gaily laughed. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MISERY AND SPLENDOR by ROBERT HASS THE APPLE TREES AT OLEMA by ROBERT HASS DOUBLE SONNET by ANTHONY HECHT CONDITIONS XXI by ESSEX HEMPHILL CALIFORNIA SORROW: MOUNTAIN VIEW by MARY KINZIE SUPERBIA: A TRIUMPH WITH NO TRAIN by MARY KINZIE COUNSEL TO UNREASON by LEONIE ADAMS TWENTY QUESTIONS by DAVID LEHMAN |
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