ACT V [MIDNIGHT]
by: Thomas Bailey Aldrich
(1836-1906)
- IRST, two
white arms that held him very close,
- And ever closer as he drew him back
- Reluctantly, the loose gold-colored hair
- A thousand delicate fibers reaching out
- Still to detain him; then some twenty steps
- Of iron stairs winding round and down,
- And ending in a narrow gallery hung
- With Goblin tapestries--Andromeda
- Rescued by Perseus, and the sleek Diana
- With her nymphs bathing; at the farther end
- A door that gave upon a starlit grove
- Of citron and clipt palm-trees; then a path
- As bleached as moonlight, with the shadow of leaves
- Stamped black upon it; next a vine-clad length
- Of solid masonry; and last of all
- A Gothic archway packed with night, and then--
- A sudden gleaming dagger through his heart.
"Act V [Midnight]" is
reprinted from THE SISTERS' TRAGEDY WITH OTHER POEMS,LYRICAL
AND DRAMATIC. Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Boston: Houghton Mifflin
Company, 1891. |
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