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PIERROT'S SONG (FOR A PICTURE BY DUGALD WALKER) by SARA TEASDALE

Poet Analysis

First Line: LADY, LIGHT IN THE EAST HANGS LOW
Last Line: ANOTHER STANZA FOR HER SAKE!)

(For a picture by Dugald Walker)

LADY, light in the east hangs low,
Draw your veils of dream apart,
Under the casement stands Pierrot
Making a song to ease his heart.
(Yet do not break the song too soon--
I love to sing in the paling moon.)

The petals are falling, heavy with dew,
The stars have fainted out of the sky,
Come to me, come, or else I too,
Faint with the weight of love will die.
(She comes--alas, I hoped to make
Another stanza for her sake!)





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