A little black thing in the snow, Crying "weep! weep!" in notes of woe! "Where are thy father and mother? Say!"-- "They are both gone up to the church to pray. "Because I was happy upon the heath, And smiled among the winter's snow, They clothed me in the clothes of death, And taught me to sing the notes of woe. "And because I am happy and dance and sing, They think they have done me no injury, And are gone to praise God and his priest and king, Who make up a heaven of our misery." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WITHOUT AND WITHIN by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 54. LOVE'S FATALITY by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI SONNET: 130 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE LUCY (1) by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH HYMN TO SCIENCE by MARK AKENSIDE |