Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE QUEEN, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR


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First Line: The queen sinned in a dream
Last Line: The great gold curls of the queen.)
Subject(s): Castles; Courts & Courtiers; Knights & Knighthood; Love


THE Queen sinned in a dream,
Never a word she spoke;
But throned in reverie supreme
She sat amid her folk.

And yet a rumour ran
Through the Castle by the sea;
The knights grew pale; the maidens 'gan
To brood right rosily.

Was it the purple dyes
Dropped from the splendid wing
Of Love-o'-Dreams in her sleeping eyes,
That told the grim old King?

Merciful was the King.
Sing therefore piteously
A mass for the Queen of pearl we bring
To the Chapel by the sea.

(A tender and sparkling sky,
Beautiful beryl-green!—
Now Love-o'-Dreams may kiss for aye
The great gold curls of the Queen.)





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