(To the maiden with the hidden face in Abbey's painting) The other maidens raised their eyes to him Who stumbled in before them when the fight Had left him victor, with a victor's right. I think his eyes with quick hot tears grew dim; He scarcely saw her swaying white and slim, And trembling slightly, dreaming of his might, Nor knew he touched her hand, as strangely light As a wan wraith's beside a river's rim. The other maidens raised their eyes to see And only she has hid her face away, And yet I ween she loved him more than they, And very fairly fashioned was her face. Yet for Love's shame and sweet humility, She dared not meet him with their queenlike grace. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONNET: 20. A FAREWELL by PHILIP SIDNEY BLOOD ON THE WHEEL by ALEXANDER ANDERSON A CHARACTER OF HIS FRIEND, W.B. ESQ by PHILIP AYRES WE'LL GO NO MORE THE WOODLAND WAY by THEODORE FAULLAIN DE BANVILLE ADMONITION by FREDERIKA BLACKNER FUTILITY by CHARLOTTE BLAISING |