The Dark Cavalier
by Margaret Widdemer
I am the Dark Cavalier; I am the Last Lover:
My arms shall welcome you when other arms are tired;
I stand to wait for you, patient in the darkness,
Offering forgetfulness of all that you desired.
I ask no merriment, no pretense of gladness,
I can love heavy lids and lips without their rose;
Though you are sorrowful you will not weary me;
I will not go from you when all the tired world goes.
I am the Dark Cavalier; I am the Last Lover;
I promise faithfulness no other lips may keep;
Safe in my bridal place, comforted by darkness,
You shall lie happily, smiling in your sleep.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Низами Гянджеви – Я долго шел по лугу лет
- All Things Can Tempt Me by William Butler Yeats
- Falling Stars by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Conviction (iv) by Stevie Smith
- Ghazal 314 by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Аля Кудряшева – Молитва
- The Year’s Awakening by Thomas Hardy
- Владимир Маяковский – Частушки
- Death of the Bird
- Василий Жуковский – Деревенский сторож в полночь
- Sonet 4 by William Alexander
- Олег Григорьев – Благо
- Михаил Ломоносов – Лишь только дневной шум замолк
- Celia Beeding, To the Surgeon by Thomas Carew
- There is a Way by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
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Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
