THE Palsgravine Jutta, in bark so light, Is crossing the Rhine in the moonlight bright The Countess speaks, while rows the maid: "Hast thou you seven corpses survey'd "That, seeking to find us, "Are floating behind us? -- "So sadly are floating the corpses! "Seven knights were they, who their love confess'd, "And tenderly sank on my heaving breast, "And swore to be faithful; so, certain to make "That they their oaths should never break, "I seized and bound them, "And straightway drown'd them, -- "So sadly are floating the corpses!" The Countess laughs, while the maiden-rows, Through the air her laughter scornfully goes; From the water the corpses rise high as the thigh, And point with their fingers towards the sky, In token of swearing, With glassy eyes staring -- So sadly are floating the corpses! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EASTER by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN ODE TO A CHILD by MATHILDE BLIND DEDICATIONS AND INSCRIPTIONS: 7. FAREWELL TO WHITE-NIGHTS by GORDON BOTTOMLEY TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. AFTER ALL SUFFERING by EDWARD CARPENTER PETER PAN by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS A REMEMBRANCE by WILLIS GAYLORD CLARK TO JOHN JOHNSON, ON HIS PRESENTING AN ANTIQUE BUST OF HOMER by WILLIAM COWPER |