BEATING Heart! we come again Where my Love reposes; This is Mabel's window-pane; These are Mabel's roses. Is she nested? Does she kneel In the twilight stilly, Lily clad from throat to heel, She, my virgin Lily? Soon the wan, the wistful stars, Fading, will forsake her; Elves of light, on beamy bars, Whisper then, and wake her. Let this friendly pebble plead At her flowery grating; If she hear me will she heed? Mabel, I am waiting. Mabel will be deck'd anon, Zoned in bride's apparel; Happy zone! O hark to yon Passion-shaken carol! Sing thy song, thou tranced thrush, Pipe thy best, thy clearest; -- Hush, her lattice moves, O hush -- Dearest Mabel! -- dearest... | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ORANGUTAN REHAB by KAREN SWENSON TO HIS WATCH, WHEN HE COULD NOT SLEEP by EDWARD HERBERT MISS KILMANSEGG AND HER PRECIOUS LEG: HER MORAL by THOMAS HOOD ON THE DEATH OF THE REV. MR. GEORGE WHITEFIELD, 1770 by PHILLIS WHEATLEY A YOUTH TO HIS FATHER by WALTER R. ADAMS THERE IS NOTHING STRANGE by ARCHILOCHUS TO BARON DE STONNE.....TO FIND HIMSELF BETWEEN by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD |