'Twas a year ago and the moon was bright (Oh, I remember so well, so well); I walked with my love in a sea of light, And the voice of my sweet was a silver bell. And sudden the moon grew strangely dull, And sudden my love had taken wing; I looked on the face of a grinning skull, I strained to my heart a ghastly thing. 'Twas but fantasy, for my love lay still In my arms, with her tender eyes aglow, And she wondered why my lips were chill, Why I was silent and kissed her so. A year has gone and the moon is bright, A gibbous moon, like a ghost of woe; I sit by a new-made grave to-night, And my heart is broken -- it's strange, you know. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A HYMN FOR PROCESSION WITH CROSS AND BANNERS by SABINE BARING-GOULD THE LITTLE GHOST by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY CASEY AT THE BAT (1) by ERNEST LAWRENCE THAYER THE SHEPHERD-BOY AND THE WOLF by AESOP PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 33. AL-HALIM by EDWIN ARNOLD GREENES FUNERALLS: SONNET 6 by RICHARD BARNFIELD TO HIS WORSHIPFULL GOOD FRIEND, MAISTER JOHN STEVENTON by RICHARD BARNFIELD |