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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE NUN, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poet's Biography
First Line: In the quiet convent garden
Last Line: Down fell the long, black veil.
Subject(s): Death; Nuns; Dead, The
First Line: In the quiet convent garden
Last Line: Down fell the long, black veil.
Subject(s): Death; Nuns; Dead, The
In the quiet convent garden
A pallid maiden dreamed.
The moon was dim above--
On drooping lashes gleamed
A tear of tender love.
He is dead, my faithful lover--
What blessedness for me!
Now it is right to love:
An angel he will be,
And angels I may love.
She walked with steps unsteady
To mother Mary's shrine;
The image, wondrous mild,
Looked in the pale moonshine
Upon the undefiled.
She sank down, gazing upward,
In heavenly peace reposed,
Until her eyelids frail
In gentle death were closed;
Down fell the long, black veil.
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