Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PIERROT IN HALF-MOURNING, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, that am pierrot, pray you pity me Last Line: All, but she'll love me yet, she'll love me yet! Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness | ||||||||
I, that am Pierrot, pray you pity me! To be so young, so old in misery: See me, and how the winter of my grief Wastes me, and how I whiten like a leaf, And how, like a lost child, lost and afraid, I seek the shadow, I that am a shade, I that have loved a moonbeam, nor have won Any Diana to Endymion. Pity me, for I have but loved too well The hope of the too fair impossible. Ah, it is she, she, Columbine: again I see her, and I woo her, and in vain. She lures me with her beckoning finger-tips; How her eyes shine for me, and how her lips Bloom for me, roses, roses, red and rich! She waves to me the white arms of a witch Over the world: I follow, I forget All, but she'll love me yet, she'll love me yet! | 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 NERVES by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS |
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