Bernice: Or the Curse of Minna, and Other Poems (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Bernice: Or the Curse of Minna, and Other Poems

And life was yielded with a sigh Ay, gaze no art can light again That eye with love, or tint the vein Or call the glow to the marble cheek, Or teach the breathless lip to speak The lover stands beside the dead His soul is filled with. Nameless dread He Clasps her hand, yet no warm press Returns the vain and fond caress But to his side, there glides a form, Like some weird Spirit Of the storm Her arms are folded on her breast That heaves beneath, in its unrest. Her hair is silvered O'er with age, And Time hath left a wrinkled page Upon her brow - yet on her cheek The passion-spot in redness glows Her very presence seems to break The spell that hushed that deep repose. She knelt her down by gerald's side, And bent her stem and eager gaze Upon his cheek, that sought to hide Its wanness, in his deep amaze. Her finger pointed to the dead.

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