Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Asia: Vols. XXI–XXIII. 1876–79. | | | | Introductory to Arabia | | Bedouin Song | | Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) |
| | | FROM the Desert I come to thee | |
| On a stallion shod with fire; | |
| And the winds are left behind | |
| In the speed of my desire. | |
| Under thy window I stand, | 5 |
| And the midnight hears my cry: | |
| I love thee, I love but thee, | |
| With a love that shall not die | |
| Till the sun grows cold, | |
| And the stars are old, | 10 |
| And the leaves of the Judgment | |
| Book unfold! | |
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| Look from thy window and see | |
| My passion and my pain; | |
| I lie on the sands below, | 15 |
| And I faint in thy disdain. | |
| Let the night-winds touch thy brow | |
| With the heat of my burning sigh, | |
| And melt thee to hear the vow | |
| Of a love that shall not die | 20 |
| Till the sun grows cold, | |
| And the stars are old, | |
| And the leaves of the Judgment | |
| Book unfold! | |
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| My steps are nightly driven, | 25 |
| By the fever in my breast, | |
| To hear from thy lattice breathed | |
| The word that shall give me rest. | |
| Open the door of thy heart, | |
| And open thy chamber door, | 30 |
| And my kisses shall teach thy lips | |
| The love that shall fade no more | |
| Till the sun grows cold, | |
| And the stars are old, | |
| And the leaves of the Judgment | 35 |
| Book unfold! | | | | |
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