Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONNET: THE LORELEI, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH


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First Line: Yonder we see it from the steamer's deck
Last Line: Then drag him down to no man knoweth where.
Subject(s): Lorelei; Sirens (mythology)


YONDER we see it from the steamer's deck,
The haunted Mountain of the Lorelei--
The o'erhanging crags sharp-cut against a sky
Clear as a sapphire without flaw or fleck.
'T was here the Siren lay in wait to wreck
The fisher-lad. At dusk, as he passed by,
Perchance he'd hear her tender amorous sigh,
And, seeing the wondrous whiteness of her neck,
Perchance would halt, and lean towards the shore;
Then she by that soft magic which she had
Would lure him, and in gossamers of her hair,
Gold upon gold, would wrap him o'er and o'er,
Wrap him, and sing to him, and set him mad,
Then drag him down to no man knoweth where.





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