Will he not come tonight? Moon and ye stars, shine bright, Tell him to come tonight. For my heart yearns for him, And my brow burns for him; His voice will rule it, His kiss will cool it. How can his heart be cold When mine is uncontrolled? Or his glance not reply To the love in mine eye? O, if such things can be, End, heart, thy misery. If he though far away, Voices did not obey, Voices of sense that tell What my heart cannot quell -- Its longing, its yearning -- Did he not turning Come to me never so far -- Then, cloud ye, moon and star; Let him not come tonight, E'en though my heart might -- Hark, heart! Whose step is this? Foolish heart, why doubt thy bliss? Doubting lips may kiss -- may kiss. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO A POET, WHO WOULD HAVE ME PRAISE CERTAIN BAD POETS, IMITATORS ... by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS AURENG-ZEBE, OR THE GREAT MOGUL: PROLOGUE by JOHN DRYDEN THE QUILTING by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THE MAN WITH THE HOE by EDWIN MARKHAM ROUTE MARCH by CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY TWO GRANDMOTHERS by IRENE ARCHER |