BARCAROLE ON THE STYX
Fair youth with the rose at your lips,
A riddle is hid in your eyes;
Discard conversational quips,
Give over elaborate disguise.
The rose's funeral breath
Confirms by intuitive fears;
To prove your devotion, Sir Death,
Avaunt for a dozen of years.
But do not forget to array
Your terror in juvenile charms;
I shall deeply regret my delay
If I sleep in a skeleton's arms.
Death And The Maiden
Elinor Morton Wylie
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Poem topics: breath, death, funeral, sleep, forget, regret, prove, delay, juvenile, youth, devotion, rose, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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