Sonett-Forum
THE TRAVELLER AND HIS WIFE'S RINGLET. - Druckversion

+- Sonett-Forum (https://sonett-archiv.com/forum)
+-- Forum: Sonett-Archiv (https://sonett-archiv.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=126)
+--- Forum: Sonette aus germanischen Sprachen (https://sonett-archiv.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=394)
+---- Forum: Englische Sonette (https://sonett-archiv.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=818)
+----- Forum: Autoren T (https://sonett-archiv.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=846)
+------ Forum: Turner, Charles Tennyson (https://sonett-archiv.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=932)
+------ Thema: THE TRAVELLER AND HIS WIFE'S RINGLET. (/showthread.php?tid=17486)



THE TRAVELLER AND HIS WIFE'S RINGLET. - ZaunköniG - 28.10.2007

THE TRAVELLER AND HIS WIFE'S RINGLET.

I HAVE a circlet of thy sunny hair,
A light from home, a blessing to mine eyes ;
Though grave and mournful thoughts will often rise,
As I behold it mutely glistening there,
So still, so passive ! like a treasure's key,
Unconscious of the dreams it doth compel,
Of gems and gold, high-piled in secret cell,
Too royal for a vulgar gaze to see !
If they were stolen, the key could never tell ;
If thou wert dead, what should thy ringlet say ?
It shows the same, betide thee ill or well,
Smiling in love, or shrouded in decay ;
It cannot darken for dead Isabel,
Nor blanch if thy young head grew white to-day.