Dreamers and Other Poems

<p><SPAN name="WHEN_PIERROT_PASSES" id="WHEN_PIERROT_PASSES"></SPAN>WHEN PIERROT PASSES</p> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">High above his happy head</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Little leaves of Spring were spread;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">And adown the dewy lawn</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Soft as moss the young green grass</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Wooed his footsteps, and the dawn</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Paused to watch him pass.</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Even so he seemed in truth</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Dancing between Love and Youth;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">And his song as gay a thing</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Still before him seemed to go</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Light as any bird awing,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Blithe as jonquils in the Spring,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">And we laughed and said, "Pierrot,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 6em;">'Tis Pierrot."</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">"Oh," he sang, "Her hands are far</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Sweeter than white roses are;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">When I hold them to my lips,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Ere I dare a finer bliss,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Petal-like her finger-tips</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Tremble 'neath my kiss.</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">And the mocking of her eyes</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Lures me like blue butterflies</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Falling&mdash;lifting&mdash;of their grace,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">And her mouth&mdash;her mouth is wine."</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">And we laughed as though her face</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Suddenly illumed the place,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">And we said, "'Tis Columbine,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 6em;">Columbine."</span><br/> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />