Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AT HER WINDOW, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poet's Biography First Line: Beating heart! We come again Last Line: Dearest mabel! -- dearest... Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Subject(s): Courtship | ||||||||
BEATING Heart! we come again Where my Love reposes; This is Mabel's window-pane; These are Mabel's roses. Is she nested? Does she kneel In the twilight stilly, Lily clad from throat to heel, She, my virgin Lily? Soon the wan, the wistful stars, Fading, will forsake her; Elves of light, on beamy bars, Whisper then, and wake her. Let this friendly pebble plead At her flowery grating; If she hear me will she heed? Mabel, I am waiting. Mabel will be deck'd anon, Zoned in bride's apparel; Happy zone! O hark to yon Passion-shaken carol! Sing thy song, thou tranced thrush, Pipe thy best, thy clearest; -- Hush, her lattice moves, O hush -- Dearest Mabel! -- dearest... | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AS YOU WALK OUT ONE MORNING by GLYN MAXWELL TALE OF THE MAYOR'S SON by GLYN MAXWELL THE RIVALS by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON MARJORIE'S WOOING by EMMA LAZARUS THE FORTUNATE SPILL by MARILYN NELSON REQUEST TO LEDA by DYLAN THOMAS A NICE CORRESPONDENT by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON |
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