MEMORIES long in music sleeping, No more sleeping, No more dumb: Delicate phantoms softly creeping Softly back from the old-world come. Faintest odours around them straying, Suddenly straying In chambers dim; Whispering silks in order swaying, Glimmering gems on shoulders slim: Courage advancing strong and tender, Grace untender Fanning desire; Suppliant conquest, proud surrender, Courtesy cold of hearts on fire -- Willowy billowy now they're bending, Low they're bending Down-dropt eyes; Stately measure and stately ending, Music sobbing, and a dream that dies. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FUGUE FOR A DROWNED GIRL by JAMES GALVIN SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: SHACK DYE by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE GOODLY SONG by PAUL VERLAINE WINTER HEAVENS by GEORGE MEREDITH THE LAND O' THE LEAL by CAROLINA OLIPHANT NAIRNE SIT DOWN SAD SOUL by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER BENEDICITE by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER LILIES: 3 by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) CLIO, NINE ECLOGUES IN HONOUR OF NINE VIRTUES: 3. OF CONTENTMENT by WILLIAM BASSE |