the tower - Popular Poems and stories from category

He built a tower for all to see,
With sun-washed gardens planted wide
And there with pomp of pageantry,
With men-at-arms and minstrelsy And moonbeam ladies fair and free,

One, from his high bright window in a tower,
Leans out, as evening falls,
And sees the advancing curtain of the
Splashing its silver on roofs and walls:

It was deep night, and over Jerusalem's low roofs The moon floated, drifting through high vaporous woofs
The moonlight crept and glistened silent, solemn, sweet,
Over dome and column, up empty, endless street;
In the closed, scented...