Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MY BONNY KATE, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poet's Biography First Line: The sultry sun with angry eye Last Line: My bonny kate! Subject(s): Longing; Love - Loss Of; Past | ||||||||
THE sultry sun with angry eye, Gleams from the lurid summer sky, Through all the veins of red July, My bonny Kate! So, very sad and very lone, I sit beside the window stone Musing on months forever flown, My bonny Kate! This very day, one year ago, I roamed where Charleston fronts the foe, And loved, but dared not tell you so, It was my fate! But soon I sought your eager eyes And answered all their glad surprise With love that falters not nor dies, My bonny Kate! You must remember times so bright When every pulse thrilled through with light, Watching the sweet moon's silver flight, My bonny Kate! That evening in the country town, The morning ride, up hill and down, The spring, where Eros won his crown, My bonny Kate! We parted, 'twas the first sharp pain, We met and parted once again It seemed as though our love were vain, So long to wait! I strove to bring the world to bay, From early dawn to twilight gray. The promised land loomed far away, My bonny Kate! Thus garnered, in that sacred past, My love has grown superb and vast, Each day sublimer than the last, My bonny Kate! My heart is full and yet I know, To-morrow it will overflow, Forever yours, for weal or woe, My bonny Kate! Then, darling, think what pangs assail Your lover's triple vest of mail, Dreaming that even you might fail Your last year's mate. Another sits where you have been, With you another walks the green And tender words have passed between, My bonny Kate! A few short weeks, and I may be Dashing along the hostile sea, Winning the gold that ransoms thee, My bonny Kate! To God I yield the doubtto you I give my solemn troth anew, My love, my faithful and my true My bonny Kate! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FERGUS FALLING by GALWAY KINNELL A TIME PAST by DENISE LEVERTOV LAST THINGS by WILLIAM MEREDITH CHRISTMAS TREE by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS THIS MORNING, GOD by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR JOHN PELHAM by JAMES RYDER RANDALL |
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