I went to buy a coat for love, A velvet thing all tailored for a woman's grace. I saw it as 'twould fit and glad my one dear heart -- I saw, or thought I saw, the light upon her face. I knew that when her body moved That coat would cry her beauty to the night or day, That when she wore it there'd be a haunting love-sight In her gallant eyes -- God made her that endearing way. "You'll send it up?" (my voice was quick), "Two hundred dollars, please," the paling salesman said. "All right, all right, but stop! Dear Christ, have I grown mad? Too late, too late! I know it now, my loved one's dead!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CLOTHES DO BUT CHEAT AND COZEN US by ROBERT HERRICK WITCH-WIFE by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY WHAT THEY ASK by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS EPIGRAM by FRANCOIS GUILLAUME JEAN STANISLAS ANDRIEUX EPIGAEA ASLEEP by WILLIAM WHITMAN BAILEY RAISING THE DEVIL; A LEGEND OF CORNELIUS AGRIPPA by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM |