@3Two strangers meeting at a festival; Two lovers whispering by an orchard wall.@1 -- TENNYSON. MOST quaintly touching, in her German tongue -- Haply, had he but mastered that as well As she his English, this were not to tell: -- Touring through her dear Fatherland, the young American first found her, as she sung @3"Du bist mir nah' und doch so fern,"@1 while fell Their eyes together, and the miracle Of love and doom was wrought. Her father wrung The lovers from each other's arms forever -- Forgive him, all forgiving souls that can! She died that selfsame hour -- just paused to write Her broken heart's confession thus: "I never Was O so loving in a young gentleman Than yet I am to you. So ist Good night." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WANDERINGS OF OISIN by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS CINQUAIN: THE WARNING by ADELAIDE CRAPSEY THE BLUE AND THE GRAY by FRANCIS MILES FINCH BRUCE: JAMES OF DOUGLAS by JOHN BARBOUR BABEL FALLS by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH THE JOURNEY by ANNE MILLAY BREMER ASOLANDO: BEATRICE SIGNORINI by ROBERT BROWNING |