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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MRS. GOLIGHTLY, by GERTRUDE HALL Poet's Biography First Line: The time is come to speak, I think Last Line: The time has come to speak. | |||
THE time is come to speak, I think: For on the square I met My beauteous widow, fresh and pink, Her black gown touched at every brink With tender violet; And at her throat the white crepe lisse Spoke, in a fluffy bow, Of woe that should perhaps ne'er cease -- (Peace to thy shade, Golightly, peace!) Yet mitigated woe. In her soft eye, that used to scan The ground, nor seem to see, The hazel legend sweetly ran, "I could not wholly hate a man For quite adoring me." And when she drew her 'kerchief fine, A hint of heliotrope Its snow edged with an inky line Exhaled, -- from which scent you divine Through old regrets new hope. And then her step, so soft and slow, She scarcely seemed to lift From off the sward her widowed toe, -- One year, one little year ago! -- So soft yet, yet so swift; Then, too, her blush, her side glance coy, Tell me in easy Greek (I wonder could her little boy Prove source of serious annoy?) The time has come to speak. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN A DARK HOUR by GERTRUDE HALL LES PAPILLOTTES by GERTRUDE HALL MY OLD COUNSELOR by GERTRUDE HALL NORTH WINTER by HAYDEN CARRUTH BUCOLIC COMEDY: THE BEAR by EDITH SITWELL THE YOUNG MYSTIC by LOUIS UNTERMEYER THE FOREFATHER by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON THE CHARIOT by EMILY DICKINSON |
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