THE girl who once, on Lydian heights, Around the sacred grove of pines, Would dance through whole tempestuous nights When no moon shines, Whose pipe of lotus featly blown Gave airs as shrill as Cotys' own, -- Who, crowned with buds of ivy dark, Three times drained deep with amorous lips The wine-fed bowl of willow bark, With silver tips, Nor sank, nor ceased, but shouted still Like some wild wind from hill to hill, -- She lies at last where poplars wave Their sad gray foliage all day long, The river murmurs near her grave A soothing song; Farewell, it saith! Her days have done With shouting at the set of sun. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ANSWER TO MASTER WITHER'S SONG, 'SHALL I, WASTING IN DESPAIR?' by BEN JONSON LAUS VENERIS (A PICTURE BY BURNE-JONES) by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON EPITAPHIUM CITHARISTRIAE by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR THE WATER WHEEL by ABU ABD ALLAH HINC LACHRIMAE; OR THE AUTHOR TO AURORA: 35 by WILLIAM BOSWORTH |