Wan maid, what is your woe? Beside his horse you go Awearily. Clasp her, O cruel knight, Upon your steed so white; Speak cheerily. O'er bare, sad moors you roam, Girl page. Where is your home, Your kith and kin? Now at the water's edge, Alas, he gives no pledge. Black death and sin! Wan maid, what is your woe? Torn feet, dazed brain? "Ah, no! Alack-a-day! I love and am disdained, I follow, for I'm chained. Ah, well-a-way!" "The pangs that pierce my side Would stay, though I did ride The livelong day. Death stares if I turn back, Death lurks along my track, In love's dark way." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WRITTEN ON A WALL AT WOODSTOCK by ELIZABETH I IMAGES: 4 by RICHARD ALDINGTON SONG-TIME by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH THE MAID OF LLANWELLYN; A SONG by JOANNA BAILLIE TWELVE SONNETS: 6 by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) TWELVE SONNETS: 7. PERFECT UNION by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) |