Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVE'S MASQUERADES: LOVE, THE IDEAL, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS First Line: At noon when every dame had sought her bed Last Line: Boom'd for one dead, down from the spired chapelle. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Dead, The | ||||||||
At noon when every dame had sought her bed, High in an oriel, peacock-plume in hand, And mapped beneath her all the varied land, Dreaming from out her dainty book she read, Till of a sudden, with a flame-girt head, The one she dream'd of, on light pinions fann'd Over the sill, did gently swoop and stand Beside her, quivering for her full mouth's red. And in his warm god's arms her cheeks so glow'd She hardly mark'd how, writ in rose and gold, Her own life's page was past, and hardly show'd. Then with a cry he vanish'd -- shivering cold The night wind swept the corridors; the bell Boom'd for one dead, down from the spired chapelle. | 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 A COURT-MINSTREL by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS |
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