Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ONLY THE FROST, by GENEVIEVE TAGGARD


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First Line: Good night, good night. And this is warning
Last Line: There is only the frost in the hills!
Alternate Author Name(s): Wolf, Robert Leopold, Mrs.
Subject(s): Frost


Good night, good night. And this is warning:
I'll be kind and cold-hearted with you --
I will take you with me any morning
Up the path where this evening we flew
To the lap where we lay in the hills.

There, where the lavish sun spills
To the level of the hollow,
Where the sun-motes flicker and fall
And the flakes of the sparse leaves follow,
When you see the sure sun crawl
Where you saw the huge moon hover
And the swallows go southward, over --
You will wonder you loved me at all!

You will know that you wanted, and made
A girl-lover of moon-shade.
Morning, and the sane light chills
The love, the loved, and the lover;
Why search for the thing lost
On scarlet leaves, under frost?
There is only the frost in the hills!





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