Ah, bonnie darling, lift your dark eyes dreaming! See, the firelight fills the gloaming, though deep darkness grows without— [Hush, dear, hush, I hear the sea-birds screaming, And down beyond the haven the tide comes with a shout!] Ah, birdeen, sweetheart, sure he is not coming, He who has your hand in his, while I have all your heart— [Hush, dear, hush, I hear the wild bees humming Far away in the underworld where true love shall not part!] Darling, darling, darling, all the world is singing, Singing, singing, singing a song of joy for me! [Hush, dear, hush, what wild sea-wind is bringing Gloom o' the sea about thy brow, athwart the eyes of thee?] Ah, heart o' me, darling, darling, all my heart's aflame! Sure, at the last we are all in all, all in all we two! @3At the Door@1 A VOICE This is the way I take my own, this is the boon I claim! Sure at the last, ye are all in all, all in all, ye two— @3(Later, in the dark, the living brooding beside the dead:—)@1 Ah, hell of my heart! Ye are dust to me—and dust with dust may woo! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE TENTH MUSE: THE VANITY OF ALL WORLDLY THINGS by ANNE BRADSTREET SONGS IN ABSENCE: 7. THE SHIP by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH THE WELCOME by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS ON THE EMIGRATION TO AMERICA AND PEOPLING WESTERN COUNTRY by PHILIP FRENEAU A THUNDERSTORM IN TOWN by THOMAS HARDY THE PHANTOM HORSEWOMAN by THOMAS HARDY BROTHERS by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM BY THE BABYLONIAN HORDES by ISAAC ROSENBERG |