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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVE UNKIND, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poet's Biography
First Line: Out upon the bleak hillside, the bleak
Last Line: Wept the sweet morn her crystal tears that love should prove unkind!
Subject(s): Crying; Grief; Love - Complaints; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness
First Line: Out upon the bleak hillside, the bleak
Last Line: Wept the sweet morn her crystal tears that love should prove unkind!
Subject(s): Crying; Grief; Love - Complaints; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness
OUT upon the bleak hillside, the bleak hillside, he lay—
Her lips were red, and red the stream that slipped his life away.
Ah, crimson, crimson were her lips, but his were turning gray.
The troubled sky seemed bending low, bending low to hide
The foam-white face so wild upturned from off the bleak hillside—
White as the beaten foam her face, and she was wond'rous eyed.
The soft, south-wind came creeping up, creeping stealthily
To breathe upon his clay-cold face—but all too cold was he,
Too cold for you to warm, south-wind, since cold at heart was she!
Sweet morning peeped above the hill, above the hill to find
The shattered, useless, godlike thing the night had left behind—
Wept the sweet morn her crystal tears that love should prove unkind!
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