To: bentfeather; snippy_about_it; SAMWolf; Darksheare; StarCMC; All
Good morning, Lair!
The Burial of Love
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
His eyes in eclipse,
Pale-cold his lips,
The light of his hopes unfed,
Mute his tongue,
His bow unstrung
With the tears he hath shed,
Backward drooping his graceful head,
Love is dead:
His last arrow is sped;
He hath not another dart;
Gocarry him to his dark deathbed;
Bury him in the cold, cold heart
Love is dead.
O truest love! art thou forlorn,
And unrevenged? thy pleasant wiles
Forgotten, and thine innocent joy?
Shall hollow-hearted apathy,
The cruellest form of perfect scorn,
With languor of most hateful smiles,
For ever write,
In the withered light
Of the tearless eye,
And epitaph that all may spy?
No! sooner she herself shall die.
For her the showers shall not fall,
Nor the round sun shine that shineth to all;
Her light shall into darkness change;
For her the green grass shall not spring,
Nor the rivers flow, nor the sweet birds sing,
Till Love have his full revenge.
77 posted on
07/26/2004 6:57:32 AM PDT by
Colonel_Flagg
("Where there is great love there are always miracles." - Willa Cather)
To: Colonel_Flagg
Good morning, Colonel.
The Burial of Love
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Shall hollow-hearted apathy,
The cruellest form of perfect scorn,
With languor of most hateful smiles,
For ever write,
In the withered light
Of the tearless eye,
And epitaph that all may spy?
No! sooner she herself shall die.
Wow these lines cut like a knife.
To: Colonel_Flagg
82 posted on
07/26/2004 7:14:10 AM PDT by
SAMWolf
(I tried to play my shoehorn... all I got was footnotes!)
To: Colonel_Flagg
Good morning Colonel. How ya doing?
90 posted on
07/26/2004 8:42:45 AM PDT by
snippy_about_it
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