"It is cold outside, you will need a coat -- What! this old Arabian shawl! Bind it about your head and throat, These steps... it is dark... my hand... you might fall." What has happened? What strange, sweet charm Lingers about the Arabian shawl... Do not tremble so! There can be no harm In just remembering -- that is all. "I love you so -- I will be your wife," Here, in the dark of the Terrace wall, Say it again. Let that other life Fold us like the Arabian shawl. "Do you remember?"... "I quite forget, Some childish foolishness, that is all, To-night is the first time we have met... Let me take off my Arabian shawl!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONG OF TWO CROWS by HAYDEN CARRUTH MY DEATH AS A GIRL I KNEW by JAMES GALVIN ROMANCE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON POSSUM SONG (A WARNING) by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON VILLAGE IN LATE SUMMER by CARL SANDBURG ELEGY: THE LITTLE GHOST WHO DIED FOR LOVE; FOR ALLANAH HARPER by EDITH SITWELL |