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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SERENADE, by JEREMIAH JOSEPH CALLANAN Poet's Biography First Line: The blue waves are sleeping Alternate Author Name(s): Callanan, James Joseph | |||
The blue waves are sleeping; The breezes are still; The light dews are weeping Soft tears on the hill; The moon in mild beauty, Looks bright from above; Then come to the casement, Oh MARY, my love. Not a sound, or a motion Is over the lake, But the whisper of ripples, As shoreward they break; My skiff wakes no ruffle The water among, Then listen, dear maid, To thy true lover's song. No form from the lattice Did ever recline Over Italy's waters, More lovely than thine; Then come to thy window And shed from above, One glance of thy dark eye, One smile of thy love. Oh! the soul of that eye When it breaks from its shroud, Shines beauteously out, Like the moon from a cloud; And thy whisper of love Breathed thus-from afar, Is sweeter to me Than the sweetest guitar. From the storms of this world How gladly I'd fly, To the calm of that breast. To the heaven of that eye! How deeply I love thee 'Twere useless to tell; Farewell, then, my dear one, My MAY, farewell. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MOONLIGHT by JEREMIAH JOSEPH CALLANAN ON CLEADA'S HILL THE MOON IS BRIGHT by JEREMIAH JOSEPH CALLANAN LINES TO THE BLESSED SACRAMENT by JEREMIAH JOSEPH CALLANAN SONG by JEREMIAH JOSEPH CALLANAN HITS AND RUNS by CARL SANDBURG BEN KARSHOOK'S WISDOM by ROBERT BROWNING THE CANTERBURY TALES: THE GENERAL PROLOGUE by GEOFFREY CHAUCER A POET'S EPITAPH by EBENEZER ELLIOTT THE GLOVE AND THE LIONS by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT THE DOVE by ABUL HASAN OF SEVILLE THE GHOST by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM HINC LACHRIMAE; OR THE AUTHOR TO AURORA: 10 by WILLIAM BOSWORTH |
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