OH! -- my lonely -- lonely -- lonely -- Pillow! Where is my lover, where is my lover? Is it his bark which my dreary dreams discover? Far -- far away! and alone along the billow? Oh! my lonely -- lonely -- lonely -- Pillow! Why must my head ache where his gentle brow lay? How the long night flags lovelessly and slowly, And my head droops over thee like the willow! Oh! thou, my sad and solitary Pillow! Send me kind dreams to keep my heart from breaking, In return for the tears I shed upon thee waking; Let me not die till he comes back o'er the billow. Then if thou wilt -- no more my lonely Pillow, In one embrace let these arms again enfold him, And then expire of the joy -- but to behold him! Oh! my lone bosom! -- oh! my lonely Pillow! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AFTER A VISIT by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR CHRISTMAS by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR TO THE UNKNOWN EROS: BOOK 1: 12. MAGNA EST VERITAS by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE LOCHABER NO MORE by ALLAN RAMSAY VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1877 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI MOST ANY BIT OF LANDSCAPE by JEAN CAMERON AGNEW TO THE SHAH (1) by AWHAD AD-DIN 'ALI IBN VAHID MUHAMMAD KHAVARANI |