A ghost, that loved a lady fair, Ever in the starry air Of midnight at her pillow stood; And, with a sweetness skies above The luring words of human love, Her soul the phantom wooed. Sweet and sweet is their poisoned note, The little snakes of silver throat, In mossy skulls that nest and lie, Ever singing "die, oh! die.' Young soul put off your flesh, and come With me into the quiet tomb, Our bed is lovely, dark, and sweet; The earth will swing us, as she goes, Beneath our coverlid of snows, And the warm leaden sheet. Dear and dear is their poisoned note, The little snakes of silver throat, In mossy skulls that nest and lie, Ever singing 'die, oh! die.' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE LAST JUDGMENT by JOHN CROWE RANSOM SELLING HER ENGAGEMENT RING by KAREN SWENSON TO MARK ANTHONY IN HEAVEN by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS THE LAST MAN: A CROCODILE by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES OVER THE HILL TO THE POOR-HOUSE by WILLIAM MCKENDREE CARLETON |