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Poem by Louise Chandler Moulton


Love's Empty House


O thou long-silent, solitary house,
Where Love once came and went with joyous cries,
Or lingered long, sighing as Summer sighs
When Autumn's breath begins her fear to rouse
With fierce caress that shall make bare her boughs
Her tender boughs, and all her beauty's prize
Deliver, faded, to the winds that rise
And rend her crown from her dishonored brows!--

O solitary house! thine open door
Again shall welcome sweet Love's wingèd tread
His eyes shall light thee, as they lit of yore
In days when Love and Joy were newly wed;
He shall return with myrtle round his head,
And fill thy halls with music as before. 



Louise Chandler Moulton


Louise Chandler Moulton's other poems:
  1. Love Is Dead
  2. A Summer's Growth
  3. Laura Sleeping
  4. My Birthday
  5. Future Forgiveness

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