Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FAITHLESS KNIGHT, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lady she sate in her bower alone Last Line: Ere that steed and its rider return again! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Grief; Knights & Knighthood; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness | ||||||||
The lady she sate in her bower alone, And she gaz'd from the lattice window high, Where a white steed's hoofs were ringing on, With a beating heart, and a smother'd sigh. Why doth she gaze thro' the sunset rays Why doth she watch that white steed's track While a quivering smile on her red lip plays? 'Tis her own dear knightwill he not look back? The steed flew fastand the rider past Nor paus'd he to gaze at the lady's bower; The smile from her lip is gone at last There are tears on her cheeklike the dew on a flower! And "plague on these foolish tears," she said, "Which have dimm'd the view of my young love's track; For oh! I am sure, while I bent my head, It was thenit was then that my knight look'd back." On flew that steed with an arrow's speed; He is goneand the green boughs wave between: And she sighs, as the sweet breeze sighs through a reed, As she watches the spot where he last has been. Oh! many a sun shall rise and set, And many an hour may she watch in vain, And many a tear shall that soft cheek wet, Ere that steed and its rider return again! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONOMA FIRE by JANE HIRSHFIELD AS THE SPARKS FLY UPWARDS by JOHN HOLLANDER WHAT GREAT GRIEF HAS MADE THE EMPRESS MUTE by JUNE JORDAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 19 by JAMES JOYCE DIRGE AT THE END OF THE WOODS by LEONIE ADAMS BINGEN ON THE RHINE by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON I DO NOT LOVE THEE by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON |
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