|
Classic and Contemporary Poetry
REMEMBER?, by BERYL V. THOMPSON First Line: Remember? Once we watched beside my gate Last Line: No grave will hold me on a night like this! | |||
Remember? Once we watched beside my gate While a pale moon appeared and disappeared Between white clouds which floated past, sedate As phantom ships by ghostly fingers steered. The time was spring and scent of the wild plum And fragrant lilac bloom was everywhere -- Ours was young love and so we sat there dumb With joy of living . . . soft wings beat the air As a wedge of wild geese drifted down the sky Migrating from some Eden in the south; Sudden you turned and kissed my waiting mouth, I had not known then that it meant goodbye. But this I know: locked in its black abyss No grave will hold me on a night like this! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MOTHER'S DAY by BERYL V. THOMPSON NEW TENANT by BERYL V. THOMPSON DICKENS IN CAMP by FRANCIS BRET HARTE THALIA by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH BALLADE OF MYSELF AND MONSIEUR RABELAIS by LEONARD BACON (1887-1954) LILIES: 29 by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) |
|