GOOD-NIGHT! I have to say good-night To such a host of peerless things! Good-night unto the slender hand All queenly with its weight of rings; Good-night to fond, uplifted eyes, Good-night to chestnut braids of hair, Good-night unto the perfect mouth, And all the sweetness nestled there -- The snowy hand detains me, then I'll have to say Good-night again! But there will come a time, my love, When, if I read our stars aright, I shall not linger by this porch With my farewells. Till then, good-night! You wish the time were now? And I. You do not blush to wish it so? You would have blushed yourself to death To own so much a year ago -- What, both these snowy hands! ah, then I'll have to say Good-night again! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...KATHMANDU GUEST HOUSE by KAREN SWENSON FOR A' THAT AND A' THAT; SONG by ROBERT BURNS THE INVITATION by GEORGE HERBERT NEW HEAVEN, NEW WAR by ROBERT SOUTHWELL IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 124 by ALFRED TENNYSON A CLEAR NIGHT by KARLE WILSON BAKER THRENODY by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES |