@3Once I saw thee idly rocking -- Idly rocking -- And chattering girlishly to other girls, Bell-voiced, happy, Careless with the stout heart of unscarred womanhood, And life to thee was all light melody. I thought of the great storms of love as I knew it. Torn, miserable, and ashamed of my open sorrow, I thought of the thunders that lived in my head, And I wished to be an ogre, And hale and haul my beloved to a castle, And there use the happy cruel one cruelly, And make her mourn with my mourning.@1 | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE DESERTED PLANTATION by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR ESCAPE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE TWINS by HENRY SAMBROOKE LEIGH SONNET (3) by CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY BUONAPARTE by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |