New Warnings came: building the fire, I spied A crumpled letter with my name, and caught Some phrases zigzag in the folds, their thought Leaping into my face: . . . @3"marriage" . . . "have died" . . . "Avoid those matters and" . . . "we're justified"@1 . . . So I unfolded (and why not?). From then My faith was shaken in two righteous men -- Plotting 'gainst me, yet plotting for my bride, The sister, daughter. I was welcome there As "the solution of her future" -- means, Not manhood, was I unto father, son: But did they reckon how that deed unfair Would work across the drama's later scenes In my own dealings with my lovely one? -- | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WIDOW AT WINDSOR by RUDYARD KIPLING SONNET: 30 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE STANZAS WRITTEN IN DEJECTION, NEAR NAPLES by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY THE SHEPHERD'S CONTENT by RICHARD BARNFIELD CROMWELL'S REFLECTIONS ON 'KILLING NO MURDER' by EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON |