THE ordeal's fatal trumpet sounded, And sad pale ADELGITHA came, When forth a valiant champion bounded, And slew the slanderer of her fame. She wept, delivered from her danger; But when he knelt to claim her glove -- "Seek not," she cried, "oh! gallant stranger, For hapless ADELGITHA's love. "For he is in a foreign far land Whose arm should now have set me free; And I must wear the willow garland For him that's dead, or false to me." "Nay! say not that his faith is tainted!" -- He raised his visor -- At the sight She fell into his arms and fainted: It was indeed her own true knight! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN A LIBRARY by EMILY DICKINSON THE DEFENSE OF THE ALAMO [MARCH 6, 1835] by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER RICHARD CORY by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON GREAT FRIEND by HENRY DAVID THOREAU ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |