A GOTHIC window, where a damask curtain Made the blank daylight shadowy and uncertain: A slab of agate on four eagle-talons Held trimly up and neatly taught to balance: A porcelain dish, o'er which in many a cluster Black grapes hung down, dead-ripe and without lustre: A melon cut in thin, delicious slices: A cake that seemed mosaic-work in spices: Two China cups with golden tulips sunny, And rich inside with chocolate like honey: And she and I the banquet-scene completing With dreamy words -- and very pleasant eating! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MANSONG: CHORAL by MARCUS ADENEY WHEN TWILIGHT COMES WITH DREAMS by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE FORLORN, MY LOVE by ROBERT BURNS PROLOGUE FOR NEW YEAR'S DAY by ROBERT BURNS ALLAH IS WITH THE PATIENT by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR PETER'S DENIAL OF HIS MASTER by JOHN BYROM |