Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AN ERROR CHANCED, by EDUARD FRIEDRICH MORIKE


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AN ERROR CHANCED, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An error chanced in the moonlight garden
Last Line: "back once more from the lonely world!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Moricke, Eduard Friedrich
Subject(s): Love


AN error chanced in the moonlight garden
Of a once inviolate love.
Shuddering I came on an outworn deceit,
And with sorrowing look, yet cruel,
Bade I the slender
Enchanting maiden
Leave me and wander far.
Alas! her lofty forehead
Was bowed, for she loved me well;
Yet did she go in silence
Into the dim gray
World outside.

Sick since then,
Wounded and woeful heart!
Never shall it be whole.

Meseems that, spun of the air, a thread of magic
Binds her yet to me, an unrestful bond;
It draws, it draws me faint with love toward her.
Might it yet be some day that on my threshold
I should find her, as erst, in the morning twilight,
Her traveler's bundle beside her,
And her eye true-heartedly looking up to me,
Saying, "See, I've come back,
Back once more from the lonely world!"





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