Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WAITING, by STUART MERRILL Poet's Biography First Line: If you have come to give me faith in life Last Line: Of your unknown key turning in the lock. Subject(s): Waiting | ||||||||
If you have come to give me faith in life Bring to my sad sojourn, Ascending on the stairway of your love, The golden key to turn. If you have come to give me faith in death, Choose then the iron key, And close the windows to the dawn That yester-shadows may remain with me. What import to my soul has life or death, If only it is you that come before, Gaoler whose key of iron or of gold Shall violate the secret of my door? And why send forth these words in solitude To you who perchance will never, on your round, Waken me with gentle voice or rude As the chimes of destiny sound. Snow has come after the birds upon the roof. Alone in this hovel where spectral footfalls mock, I still await the sorrow or the joy Of your unknown key turning in the lock. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ALMOST AN ELEGY by JOSEPH BRODSKY THE AWAKENING by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON WAITING FOR SWEET BETTY by CLARENCE MAJOR GENTLEMEN, I ADDRESS YOU PUBLICLY by KENNETH REXROTH LA VIE EN ROSE by KENNETH REXROTH AGAINST THY KNEES by STUART MERRILL BALLADE OF THE CHINESE LOVER by STUART MERRILL BALLADE OF THE OUTCASTS: THE ENVOY OF THE OUTCASTS by STUART MERRILL |
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