Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LOVE'S DELAY, by EDWARD CRACROFT LEFROY


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First Line: They sat - they two - upon the cliff together
Last Line: Still pledged to move, and still love-anchored there.
Subject(s): Love; Togetherness


THEY sat — they two — upon the cliff together,
And watched the moonlight dance along the swell,
Till broke upon their pleasance, 'mid the heather,
The midnight warning of the village bell.

"Good-night, my love," he said; "we pass the measure
Of blessing which in one day's lap can lie;
To linger later were to weary Pleasure,
And draw some brightness from To-morrow's eye."

They rose, and gave a last fond look at ocean,
And then another, and again one more,
And lingering thus, at every homeward motion
They noted some delight unseen before.

So waned the Night; and when young Morn upstarted
And quenched pale Luna's lamp with ruddier glare,
He found them parting yet, and yet unparted, —
Still pledged to move, and still love-anchored there.





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