Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SERENADE, by JEREMIAH JOSEPH CALLANAN Poet's Biography First Line: The blue waves are sleeping Alternate Author Name(s): Callanan, James Joseph | ||||||||
The blue waves are sleeping; The breezes are still; The light dews are weeping Soft tears on the hill; The moon in mild beauty, Looks bright from above; Then come to the casement, Oh MARY, my love. Not a sound, or a motion Is over the lake, But the whisper of ripples, As shoreward they break; My skiff wakes no ruffle The water among, Then listen, dear maid, To thy true lover's song. No form from the lattice Did ever recline Over Italy's waters, More lovely than thine; Then come to thy window And shed from above, One glance of thy dark eye, One smile of thy love. Oh! the soul of that eye When it breaks from its shroud, Shines beauteously out, Like the moon from a cloud; And thy whisper of love Breathed thus-from afar, Is sweeter to me Than the sweetest guitar. From the storms of this world How gladly I'd fly, To the calm of that breast. To the heaven of that eye! How deeply I love thee 'Twere useless to tell; Farewell, then, my dear one, My MAY, farewell. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MOONLIGHT by JEREMIAH JOSEPH CALLANAN ON CLEADA'S HILL THE MOON IS BRIGHT by JEREMIAH JOSEPH CALLANAN LINES TO THE BLESSED SACRAMENT by JEREMIAH JOSEPH CALLANAN SONG by JEREMIAH JOSEPH CALLANAN SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: LAMBERT HUTCHINS by EDGAR LEE MASTERS ON THE MEDUSA OF LEONARDO DA VINCI IN THE FLORENTINE GALLERY by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY THE FOOL'S PRAYER by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 97. AL-WARITH by EDWIN ARNOLD THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 24, ASKING FOR HER HEART (2) by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |
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