The Midnight wooed the Morning-Star,
And prayed her: “Love come nearer;
Your swinging coldly there afar
To me but makes you dearer!”
The Morning-Star was pale with dole
As said she, low replying:
“Oh, lover mine, soul of my soul,
For you I too am sighing.
“But One ordained when we were born,
In spite of Love's insistence,
That Night might only view the Morn
Adoring at a distance.”
But as she spoke the jealous Sun
Across the heavens panted.
“Oh, whining fools,” he cried, “have done;
Your wishes shall be granted!”
He hurled his flaming lances far;
The twain stood unaffrighted-
And Midnight and the Morning-Star
Lay down in death united!
The Barrier
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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Poem topics: I love you, death, night, sun, april fools, united, view, distance, soul, star, morning, love, I miss you, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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