If Thou Art Sleeping, Maiden
A speaker urges a maiden to wake and open her door at daybreak so they can leave across meadow, mountain, and moor. The speaker tells her to come barefoot without waiting for slippers, anticipating dewy grass and wide, swift waters.
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Genre: Lyric Poetry · 94 words
First lines
By Gil Vicente
If thou art sleeping, maiden, / Awake and open thy door, / 'T is the break of day, and we must away, / O'er meadow, and mount, and moor.
Wait not to find thy slippers, / But come with thy naked feet; / We shall have to pass through the dewy grass, / And waters wide and fleet.
Genres
- Lyric Poetry — Two rhymed stanzas directly address a maiden, urging her to wake and join the speaker on a journey.
Tags
daybreak · awakening · barefoot travel · dewy grass
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Lyric Poetry
- Length: 94 words
- Structure: 1 section, 3 paragraphs
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