ONE night I dreamt that in a gleaming hall You played, and overhead the air was sweet With waving kerchiefs; then a sudden fall Of flowers; and jewels clashed about your feet. Around you glittering forms, a starry ring, In echo sang of youth and golden ease: You leant to me a moment, crying -- 'Sing, 'If, as you say, you love me, sing with these.' -- In vain my lips were opened, for my throat Was choked somewhence, my tongue was sore and dry, And in my soul alone the answering note; Till, in a piercing discord, one shrill cry, As of a hunted creature, from me broke. You laughed, and in great bitterness I woke. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LOVE'S APPARITION AND EVANISHMENT; AN ALLEGORICAL ROMANCE by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE THE DEFENSE OF THE ALAMO [MARCH 6, 1835] by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER EPIGRAM: 27. THE FRUIT by THOMAS WYATT COUNTRY DOCTOR by DANA KNEELAND AKERS THE JEW'S GIFT; A.D. 1200 by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH |