Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LOVE'S MASQUERADES: LOVE, THE POET, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS


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LOVE'S MASQUERADES: LOVE, THE POET, by                    
First Line: In broad brocades, three laughing ladies sat
Last Line: And poesy had stolen all love's space.
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Tears


In broad brocades, three laughing ladies sat,
Hand in white hand, and marygold-girt head
To warm white throat; their cheeks encrimsoned;
And from their lips intent, the waifs of chat
Went twittering o'er the daisied terrace-plat
Of Love's delights what time they might be wed;
Then Love came by the marygold's bright bed
A gay court poet, peacock-plume in hat.

With soft hand feeling down his slender thigh,
Where dangling hung his deadly chorded lute,
He 'gan recite of Tristram and Yseut:
For whose sad loves the silenced dames thereby,
In tears forgot their lords long due from chase; --
And Poesy had stolen all love's space.





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