They lie entangled in the twisting roots,
Embraced forever. Their cold marriage bed
Close-canopied and curtained by the shoots
Of willows and pale birches. At the head,
White lilies, like still swans, placidly float
And sway above the pebbles. Here are waves
Sun-smitten for a threaded counterpane
Gold-woven on their graves.
In perfect quietness they sleep, remote
In the green, rippled twilight. Death has smote
Them to perpetual oneness who were twain.
Pickthorn Manor: 62
Amy Lowell
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Poem topics: death, green, marriage, perfect, sleep, sun, forever, head, white, cold, gold, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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