I WONDER dost thou sleep at night, False friend and falser enemy! I wonder if thy hours are long and drag out wearily! We've passed days and nights together In our time...But that white feather That the wind's blown past the roof ridge @3It is gone. ...So I from thee!@1 Aye, chase it o'er the courtyard stones. Past friend of mine, my enemy! Chase on beneath the chestnut boughs and out toward the sea, If the fitful wind should fail it, Thou may'st catch it, and may'st trail it In midden's mud and garbage... @3As thou hast my thoughts of thee.@1 So I wonder dost thou sleep at night? Once friend of mine, my enemy? Or whether dost thou toss and turn to plan new treachery? As the feather thou hast trodden So my thoughts of thee are sodden When I think. ...Yes, half forgotten, A faint taste of something rotten Comes at times, like worm-struck wood ash @3Comes at times, the thought of thee.@1 But I would not have thy night thoughts As the slow clock beats to dayward! I'll be sleeping with my eyes shut, Dreaming deep, or dreaming wayward. And I hear thee turn and mutter As thy dawn-ward candles gutter— For thou fear'st the dark... Hark! "Judas!" Says the dawn wind from the sea. Round the house it whispers "Judas!" @3Friend of mine, my enemy.@1 | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BUNKER HILL by GEORGE HENRY CALVERT SONNETS ATTEMPTED IN THE MANNER OF CONTEMPORARY WRITERS: 3 by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE ON AN INVITATION TO THE UNITED STATES by THOMAS HARDY MY AUNT by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES A QUESTION by JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE |