To Lady Jane
Vachel Lindsay 1879 (Springfield) – 1931 (Springfield)
Romance was always young.
You come today
Just eight years old
With marvellous dark hair.
Younger than Dante found you
When you turned
His heart into the way
That found the heavenly stair.
Perhaps we must be strangers.
I confess
My soul this hour is Dante's,
And your care
Should be for dolls
Whose painted hands caress
Your marvellous dark hair.
Romance, with moonflower face
And morning eyes,
And lips whose thread of scarlet prophesies
The canticles of a coming king unknown,
Remember, when you join him
On his throne,
Even me, your far off troubadour,
And wear
For me some trifling rose
Beneath your veil,
Dying a royal death,
Happy and pale,
Choked by the passion,
The wonder and the snare,
The glory and despair
That still will haunt and own
Your marvellous dark hair.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | xaxbxxab xcxbxcB xddexexbxfxfxbbeB |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 750 |
Words | 138 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 7, 17 |
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