Ringleted youth of my love, With thy locks bound loosely behind thee, You passed by the road above, But you never came in to find me; Where were the harm for you If you came for a little to see me, Your kiss is a wakening dew Were I ever so ill or so dreamy. If I had golden store I would make a nice little boreen To lead straight up to his door, The door of the house of my storeen; Hoping to God not to miss The sound of his footfall in it, I have waited so long for his kiss That for days I have slept not a minute. I thought, O my love! you were so -- As the moon is, or sun on a fountain, And I thought after that you were snow, The cold snow on top of the mountain; And I thought after that, you were more Like God's lamp shining to find me, Or the bright star of knowledge before, And the star of knowledge behind me. You promised me high-heeled shoes, And satin and silk, my storeen, And to follow me, never to lose, Though the ocean were round us roaring; Like a bush in a gap in a wall I am now left lonely without thee, And this house I grow dead of, is all That I see around or about me. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 2. CANTO 8. PRELUDE: THE KISS by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE CHILD OF THE ROMANS by CARL SANDBURG THE AVENUE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN COCK UP YOUR BEAVER by ROBERT BURNS CORYBANTIAST by MARY BRENNAN CLAPP |