The moonlight had tangled the trees Under our feet as we walked in the night, And the shadows beneath us were stirred by the breeze In the magical light; And the moon was a silver fire, And the stars were flickers of flame, Golden and violet and red; And the night-wind sighed my desire, And the wind in the tree-tops whispered and said In her ear her adorable name. But her heart would not hear what I heard, The pulse of the night as it beat, Love, Love, Love, the unspeakable word, In its murmurous repeat; She heard not the night-wind's sigh, Nor her own name breathed in her ear, Nor the cry of my heart to her heart, A speechless, a clamorous cry: "Love! Love! will she hear? will she hear? O heart, she will hear, by-and-by, When we part, when for ever we part. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DESERT WIFE by NELLIE COOLEY ALDER TWO THINGS by AMIR MAHMUD IBN AMIR YAMINU'D-DIN TUGHRA'I MARY MAGDALEN by BARTOLOME LEONARDO DE ARGENSOLA HEINE'S GRAVE by MATTHEW ARNOLD EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 26. PLATONIC LOVE by PHILIP AYRES ON THE DEATH OF MR. WOODWARD, AT EDINBURGH by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD CLIFTON by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN ON THESE LABOURED POEMS OF THE DECEASED AUTHOR, MR. WILLIAM BOSWORTH by L. C. TALES OF THE HALL: BOOK 6. ADVENTURES OF RICHARD CONCLUDED by GEORGE CRABBE |