Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GLIMPSES OF CHILDHOOD: 4. EARLY LOVES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poet's Biography First Line: I mind me of a maid with tawny hair Last Line: A ten-year-old lamenting for his dead. Subject(s): Death; Love; Passion; Voices; Dead, The | ||||||||
I MIND me of a maid with tawny hair That grew in somber glory round her head; And of another maid -- long since she's dead -- Sunnily fair. And oh, I loved them both when I was ten! They, being angels, had no age like men. Touching their hands, I trembled with delight, Their voices blent to music in mine ear; Together or apart, they were so dear, By day or night, It turned me sick with rapture, if they leant Momently down to me with kind intent. They dubbed me "little sweetheart," I recall, And with each other vied to give me joy; For they were women grown, I but a boy, Their humble thrall. My love was desperate-earnest, holy and high The passion that I nursed beneath the sky. So, when they were betrothed, and I must know The transiency that dooms all loves of earth, It seemed a curious, bitter, second birth Into man's woe. "They're mine no more, they're mine no more," I said, A ten-year-old lamenting for his dead. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND BLACK SHEEP by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON |
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