(For a picture by Dugald Walker) LADY, light in the east hangs low, Draw your veils of dream apart, Under the casement stands Pierrot Making a song to ease his heart. (Yet do not break the song too soon-- I love to sing in the paling moon.) The petals are falling, heavy with dew, The stars have fainted out of the sky, Come to me, come, or else I too, Faint with the weight of love will die. (She comes--alas, I hoped to make Another stanza for her sake!) | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE MEMORY OF MARTHA by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 2. IN CHURCH by THOMAS HARDY DEWEY AT MANILA [MAY 1, 1898] by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON THE RETORT by GEORGE POPE MORRIS THE THREE ENEMIES by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI TO THE CASTLE OF DONEGAL by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM |