Classic and Contemporary Poetry
KATE KEARNEY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why doth the maiden turn away Last Line: And pine, the victims of a dream. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Legends, Irish | ||||||||
WHY doth the maiden turn away From voice so sweet, and words so dear? Why doth the maiden turn away When love and flattery woo her ear? And rarely that enchanted twain Whisper in woman's ear in vain. Why doth the maiden leave the hall? No face is fair as hers is fair, No step has such a fairy fall, No azure eyes like hers are there. The maiden seeks her lonely bower, Although her father's guests are met; She knows it is the midnight hour, She knows the first pale star is set, And now the silver moonbeams wake The spirits of the haunted Lake. The waves take rainbow hues, and now The shining train are gliding by, Their chieftain lifts his glorious brow, The maiden meets his lingering eye. The glittering shapes melt into night; Another look, their chief is gone, And chill and gray comes morning's light, And clear and cold the Lake flows on; Close, close the casement, not for sleep, Over such visions eyes but weep. How many share such destiny, How many, lured by fancy's beam, Ask the impossible to be, And pine, the victims of a dream. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE DEATH OF CUCHULAIN by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS THE VOYAGE OF MAELDUNE by ALFRED TENNYSON A FAERY SONG, SUNG BY THE PEOPLE OF FAERY OVER DIARMUID by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS HE MOURNS FOR THE CHANGE THAT HAS COME UPON HIM AND BELOVED by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS THE HOSTING OF THE SIDHE by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS TO THE ROSE UPON THE ROOD OF TIME by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS THE ABBOT OF INISFALEN by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM THE HAUNTED LAKE: THE IRISH MINSTREL'S LEGEND by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON CUCHULAIN COMFORTED by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS CALYPSO WATCHING THE OCEAN by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON |
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