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Poem by John Drinkwater


Birthright


Lord Rameses of Egypt sighed
Because a summer evening passed;
And little Ariadne cried
That summer fancy fell at last
To dust; and young Verona died
When beauty's hour was overcast.

Theirs was the bitterness we know
Because the clouds of hawthorn keep
So short a state, and kisses go
To tombs unfathomably deep,
While Rameses and Romeo
And little Ariadne sleep. 



John Drinkwater


John Drinkwater's other poems:
  1. Reciprocity
  2. A Town Window
  3. The Carver in Stone
  4. Deer


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