Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO A WELSH AIR, by REGINALD HEBER



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TO A WELSH AIR, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why that neck of marble whiteness
Last Line: Ere that thou art old!
Subject(s): Beauty; Cold; Evil


WHY that neck of marble whiteness,
Why that hair of sunny brightness,
Form of perfect mould;
Why those fringed eyelids screening,
Lights of love and liquid meaning,
While the heart is cold?

Shame on her whose pride or malice
With a lover's anguish dallies!
Scorn our scatter'd reason rallies:
Thou shalt mourn thy tyrant sallies,
Ere that thou art old -- young Alice,
Ere that thou art old!





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