Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE NAMING OF MY FAIR, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS


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THE NAMING OF MY FAIR, by                    
First Line: When night is come and lovers meet
Last Line: And call you -- my soul!
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Love; Lutes; Night; Soul; Stars; Bedtime


When night is come and lovers meet,
And glow-worms all their lights have hung,
And nightingales sink killing sweet,
Where erst the low-voiced loriots sung, --
I tune my lute at your window-bar,
And call you -- My Star!

When dawn is white, and tipt with red;
And, shouting 'mid the misty firs,
The shepherds leave their mountain-bed
For pastures mad with grasshoppers, --
I wait you in your garden-way,
And call you -- My Day!

When noon is over-hot and high,
And viners loll the walls along,
And mountains melt in gauzy sky,
And shrill cicadas whirr with song, --
I lay me in your lime's leaf-light,
And call you -- My Night!

When twilight comes and tolls the bell,
The bier winds slowly t'wards the church;
The reapers wish the passer well,
And stars come out and pigeons perch, --
I lay me where your love is rife,
And call you -- My Life!

When day and all is dead and wail'd,
And all's undone that might have been, --
In heaven's high music-room gargeyl'd,
I scrape the quill to my mandoline, --
I'll time me where you read your scroll,
And call you -- My Soul!





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