Poems

<h2><SPAN name="RONDEAU_POURQUOI" id="RONDEAU_POURQUOI"></SPAN>RONDEAU.&mdash;POURQUOI?</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">"<span class="dropcap">P</span>OURQUOI," she breathed, then drooped her head,<br/></span> <span class="i1a">(Pure snow-drifts to the sunset wed)<br/></span> <span class="i2">As all my weakness I confessed.<br/></span> <span class="i2">I shewed how I had done my best,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Though long ago I should have fled,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Knowing all hope, for me, was dead;<br/></span> <span class="i0">And now my heart would die, unfed.<br/></span> <span class="i2">She murmured low, (was it in jest?)<br/></span> <span class="i6">"Pourquoi?"<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">That winsome face, all rosy red,&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i0">I turned towards me,&mdash;gone was dread!<br/></span> <span class="i2">She came as birdlings to their nest<br/></span> <span class="i2">At eventide; so was I blest<br/></span> <span class="i0">By that one precious, softly-said<br/></span> <span class="i6">"Pourquoi?"<br/></span></div> </div> <hr /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />