Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich / [by Thomas Bailey Aldrich] [electronic text]

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Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907

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Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company

1885

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NOCTURNE.

BELLAGGIO.

 UP to her chamber window A slight wire trellis goes, And up this Romeo's ladder Clambers a bold white rose.   

I lounge in the ilex shadows, I see the lady lean, Unclasping her silken girdle, The curtain's folds between. 

She smiles on her white-rose lover, She reaches out her hand And helps him in at the window— I see it where I stand! 

 To her scarlet lip she holds him, And kisses him many a time— Ah, me! it was he that won her Because he dared to climb!   