One fine morning, in a land full of mild-mannered folk, a man and woman, majestic in their bearing, stood on the public square. The man said, "Friends, I want her to be queen!" And the woman said, "I want to be queen!" She laughed and trembled. And the man told his friends of a revelation, of a test completed. Then they swooned into each other's arms, enraptured. And for one whole morning, as the draperies hung rubycolored from the houses, and for one whole afternoon, as they walked toward the garden of palms, they were truly kings. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...REMBRANDT TO REMBRANDT by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON THE NIGHTINGALE; A CONVERSATION POEM by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN: THE FIRST DAY: THE BIRDS OF KILLINGWORTH by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW THYESTES, ACT 2: CHORUS by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA ONLY WAITING by FRANCES LAUGHTON MACE WE ARE SEVEN by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |