Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EMPTY AIR CASTLES, by MARGUERITE GIANELLA


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EMPTY AIR CASTLES, by                    
First Line: I have closed the doors of my castle
Last Line: When love was no more by my side.
Subject(s): Castles


I have closed the doors of my castle
After I looked inside;
It was empty, lone, and dreary,
And I cared not there to abide.

For no more do my airy fancies come
To dance through my castle halls,
And no more do my fancied heroes now
Hang on my castle walls.

Ah, many a time I came with joy
To open my castle gate;
From a tired day I came to play
And there for my love to wait.

But now I have no more illusions,
No dreams do I dream as of old,
And out of my dear dead fancies
A story might be told.

Ah, many a story might be told
Of our dreams and our loves now dead,
Of the eyes that were bright with love's true light
And the things that were left unsaid.

Of the thoughts that our hearts were filled with,
Of our loves left unexpressed,
Of the hearts once so warm and tender
Now gone to eternal rest.

I have closed the last door of my castle,
As nothing was left inside,
And I could not bear to stay long there
When love was no more by my side.





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