Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, OLD POEM: 2, by ANONYMOUS


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OLD POEM: 2, by                    
First Line: "green, green, / the grass by the river-bank"
Last Line: It is hard alone to keep an empty bed
Subject(s): Absence;china - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Separation;isolation


GREEN, green,
The grass by the river-bank.
Thick, thick,
The willow trees in the garden.
Sad, sad,
The lady in the tower.
White, white,
Sitting at the casement window.
Fair, fair,
Her red-powdered face.
Small, small,
She puts out her pale hand.
Once she was a dancing-house girl,
Now she is a wandering man's wife.
The wandering man went, but did not return.
It is hard alone to keep an empty bed.





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