THE dreadful hour is sighing for a moon To light old lovers to the place of tryst, And old footsteps from blessed acres soon On old known pathways will be lightly prest; And winds that went to eavesdrop since the noon, Kinking at some old tale told sweetly brief, Will give a cowslick to the yarrow leaf, And sling the round nut from the hazel down. And there will be old yarn balls, and old spells In broken lime-kilns, and old eyes will peer For constant lovers in old spidery wells, And old embraces will grow newly dear. And some may meet old lovers in old dells, And some in doors ajar in towns light-lorn; -- But two will meet beneath a gnarly thorn Deep in the bosom of the windy fells. Then when the night slopes home and white-faced day Yawns in the east there will be sad farewells; And many feet will tap a lonely way Back to the comfort of their chilly cells, And eyes will backward turn and long to stay Where love first found them in the clover bloom -- But one will never seek the lonely tomb, And two will linger at the tryst alway. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONNET TO A FRIEND WHO ASKED, HOW I FELT ... MY INFANT TO ME by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE THE CHILDREN by CHARLES MONROE DICKINSON THE SAND-MAN by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THE TEST by RALPH WALDO EMERSON GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD MORNING by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES |