ONE night I dreamt that in a gleaming hall You played, and overhead the air was sweet With waving kerchiefs; then a sudden fall Of flowers; and jewels clashed about your feet. Around you glittering forms, a starry ring, In echo sang of youth and golden ease: You leant to me a moment, crying -- 'Sing, 'If, as you say, you love me, sing with these.' -- In vain my lips were opened, for my throat Was choked somewhence, my tongue was sore and dry, And in my soul alone the answering note; Till, in a piercing discord, one shrill cry, As of a hunted creature, from me broke. You laughed, and in great bitterness I woke. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...UPON JULIA'S VOICE by ROBERT HERRICK THE WOODLARK by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS ON VISITING THE TOMB OF BURNS by JOHN KEATS DEATH STANDS ABOVE ME by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR SONNET: DEATH-WARNINGS by FRANCISCO GOMEZ DE QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 5. WALTON'S BOOK OF LIVE by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |