The light of our cigarettes Went and came in the gloom: It was dark in the little room. Dark, and then, in the dark, Sudden, a flash, a glow, And a hand and a ring I know. And then, through the dark, a flush Ruddy and vague, the grace (A rose!) of her lyric face. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ODE TO THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY by SIDNEY LANIER THE SCARE-FIRE by ROBERT HERRICK THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 16 by OMAR KHAYYAM TO EDWARD FITZGERALD by ALFRED TENNYSON ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 8. AMORET by MARK AKENSIDE SONNET FROM JAPAN: 1. THE SPELL by ADELAIDE NICHOLS BAKER THE GEOGRAPHER'S GLORY; OR, THE GLOBE IN 1730 by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 68. THE THREE AGES OF WOMAN: 3 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |