Zusammenfassung der Ressource
A wife in London
- Stanza 1
- She sits in the tawny vapour
- That the city lanes have uprolled
- Behind whose webby fold on fold
- Like a waning tapour
- The street lamp glimmers cold
- Stanza 2
- A messenger's knock cracks smartly
- Flashed news is in her hand
- Of meaning it dazes to understand
- Though shaped so shortly
- He has fallen in the far South land
- Stanza 3
- 'Tis the morrow, the fog hangs thicker
- The postman nears and goes
- A letter is brought whose lines disclose
- By the firelight flicker
- His hand, whom the worm now knows
- Stanza 4
- Fresh, firm, penned in highest
feather
- Page full of his hoped return
- And of home planned
jaunts by brake and burn
- In the summer wether
- And of new love that they would learn