Do you remember now how rain Ran thickly down each window pane, And clouds of lilac were as blurred As old sonatas dimly heard? We sat beside a hemlock blaze And felt the glow of coming days. Ah, there were only just we two, And laughter leaping up the flue. And do you know how still the rain Is, now, upon each leaded pane, And breath of lilacs, wet and thin, Comes timidly and wanders in? You took my heart that rainy day And then you went -- went far away. You went between the lilac row, -- (How does that old sonata go?) | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...APPLES OF HESPERIDES by AMY LOWELL THE BURIAL OF BOSTON CORBETT (ONE WARDEN TO ANOTHER) by EDGAR LEE MASTERS OLD TRAILS by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON THE SEA-GRAVE by SARA TEASDALE THE HERETIC: 4. HUMILITY by LOUIS UNTERMEYER MARRIAGE by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS |