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
- A Man Young And Old: X. His Wildness by William Butler Yeats
- A Farewell to False Love by Sir Walter Raleigh
- The Heritage by Rudyard Kipling
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Не называй далекой бездной
- The Deserted Garden
- Yadwigha, On A Red Couch, Among Lillies by Sylvia Plath
- The Weepen Leady by William Barnes
- The Blind by Sara Teasdale
- Нина Найденова – Наши игрушки
- The Sandbox by Rachel McKibbens
- Sonnet. On Leigh Hunt’s Poem ‘The Story of Rimini’ poem – John Keats poems
- Николай Заболоцкий – Баллада Жуковского
- From ‘Samson Agonistes’ i poem – John Milton poems
- Ape by Russell Edson
- Primacy Of Mind poem – Alfred Austin
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