And then she saw me creeping! Saw and stood Transfixed upon the fringes of the wood, And straight went, leaping! Headlong, down the pitch Of the curved hill! Over the ditch, And through the skirt of bushes by the rill She pelted screaming! Swerved from the water, sideways, with a twist, Just as I clutched -- And missed' Flashed white beneath my hand, and doubled back, Swift as a twisting hare upon her track, Hot for the hill again! But all in vain! Her hair swung far behind! Straight as a stream balanced upon the wind! Oh, it was black! Dipped In the dregs of midnight, with a spark Caught from a star, that smouldered in the dark! It I gripped! Drew for a moment tight! Jerked, with a victor's cry, Down in the grasses high Her to the hot brown earth and threatened -- daft -- And then! ...She laughed! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 8 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI THE LORD OF BURLEIGH by ALFRED TENNYSON THE TRANSFORMATION OF A TEXAS GIRL by JAMES BARTON ADAMS EMERSON by AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT |