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
- Before Day by Siegfried Sassoon
- Николай Гербель – Салютовка
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- Pigeon Haiku by Violet Uram
- In the Home Stretch by Robert Frost
- The Grammar Lesson by Steve Kowit
- Passing Breeze by Rabindranath Tagore
- A Mystic As Soldier by Siegfried Sassoon
- He Said To by Marvin Bell
- Николай Гумилев – Крест
- Алексей Толстой – Пустой дом
- On The University Carrier Who Sickn’d In The Time Of His Vacancy, Being Forbid To Go To London, By Reason Of The Plague poem – John Milton poems
- Ballad of the Goodly Fere poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Владимир Высоцкий – Говорят, лезу прямо под нож
- Николай Заболоцкий – Вопросы к морю
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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).
