'O THAT mastering tune!' And up in the bed Like a lace-robed phantom springs the bride; 'And why?' asks the man she had that day wed, With a start, as the band plays on outside. 'It's the townsfolk's cheery compliment Because of our marriage, my Innocent.' 'O but you don't know! 'Tis the passionate air To which my old Love waltzed with me, And I swore as we spun that none should share My home, my kisses, till death, save he! And he dominates me and thrills me through, And it's he I embrace while embracing you!' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO AN INTRA-MURAL RAT by MARIANNE MOORE THE WHITE PEACOCK by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET LOVE BEING ALL ONE by ROBERT FROST THEY HAVEN'T HEARD THE WEST IS OVER by JAMES GALVIN THREE SONNETS by RICHARD WILBUR ECSTASY by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON INEVITABLY (2) by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON |