Too long outside your door I have shivered. You open it? I will not stay. I'm haunted by your ashen beauty. Take back your hand. I have gone away. Don't talk, but move to that near corner. I loathe the long cold shadow here. We will stand a moment in the lamplight, Until I watch you hard and near. Happy release! Good-bye for ever! Here at the corner we say good-bye. But if you want me, if you do need me, Who waits, at the terrible door, but I? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE STORY OF THE END OF THE STORY by JAMES GALVIN RICHARD BOOTH TO HIS SON JUNIUS BRUTUS by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE POLAR QUEST by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON SONNET WRITTEN IN DISGUST OF VULGAR SUPERSTITION by JOHN KEATS LONE DOG by IRENE RUTHERFORD MCLEOD THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 5. THE CHANGELING by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER |