Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AGAINST THY KNEES, by STUART MERRILL


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First Line: Against thy knees my pallid brow
Last Line: The kingdom they have robbed me of.
Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Knees; Love; Singing & Singers; Voices; Dead, The


AGAINST thy knees my pallid brow
Amid the fading roses there;
O lady of Autumn, love me now
Before the black days chill the air.

And move thy gentle hands that seem
To ease my heart, to heal the sting!
Of my ancestral kings I dream,
But thou, lift up thine eyes, and sing.

Soothe me with haunting ditties old,
And songs of valor that has been,
Of kings who in their ruddy gold
Died at the feet of maid and queen.

And when thy liquid voice shall rise
Recalling epic and romance,
And cry even as the bugle cries
Above the harsh swords' flash and dance,

For gentle death I shall be fain
Amid thy roses, O my love,
Too cowardly to win again
The kingdom they have robbed me of.





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