Monday, October 31, 2011

Poetry Monday

Happy Halloween!



The Vampire



by Madison Julius Cawein










A lily in a twilight place?


A moonflow'r in the lonely night?—


Strange beauty of a woman's face


Of wildflow'r-white!






The rain that hangs a star's green ray


Slim on a leaf-point's restlessness,


Is not so glimmering green and gray


As was her dress.






I drew her dark hair from her eyes,


And in their deeps beheld a while


Such shadowy moonlight as the skies


Of Hell may smile.






She held her mouth up redly wan,


And burning cold,—I bent and kissed


Such rosy snow as some wild dawn


Makes of a mist.






God shall not take from me that hour,


When round my neck her white arms clung!


When 'neath my lips, like some fierce flower,


Her white throat swung!






Or words she murmured while she leaned!


Witch-words, she holds me softly by,—


The spell that binds me to a fiend


Until I die.



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