"It is cold outside, you will need a coat -- What! this old Arabian shawl! Bind it about your head and throat, These steps... it is dark... my hand... you might fall." What has happened? What strange, sweet charm Lingers about the Arabian shawl... Do not tremble so! There can be no harm In just remembering -- that is all. "I love you so -- I will be your wife," Here, in the dark of the Terrace wall, Say it again. Let that other life Fold us like the Arabian shawl. "Do you remember?"... "I quite forget, Some childish foolishness, that is all, To-night is the first time we have met... Let me take off my Arabian shawl!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JOURNEY TO A KNOWN PLACE by HAYDEN CARRUTH DOWN THE BROOK by ROBERT FROST ON TALK OF PEACE AT THIS TIME by ROBERT FROST AFTERGLOW by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON RECOMPENSE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON DOWN BY THE CARIB SEA: 1. SUNRISE IN THE TROPICS by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON TWO POEMS FROM THE WAR: 1 by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH A LETTER ON THE USE OF MACHINE GUNS AT WEDDINGS by KENNETH PATCHEN |