Cupid To A Skull.

Charles Hamilton Musgrove 1871 (Kentucky) – 1926



I came your way in the years gone by,
In the summers that now are old,
And then there was light in your beaming eye,
And love was living and hopes were high
At the Sign of the Heart of Gold.
  
I come today and the lights are fled,
And the trail of the mold and rust
Has saddened the hall where the feast was spread,
And love has vanished and youth is dead
At the Sign of the Heart of Dust.
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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABAAB CDCCD
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 381
Words 83
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 5, 5

Charles Hamilton Musgrove

Musgrove was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Gertrude (Hamilton) and Henry C. Musgrove. He died in Louisville, and is buried in that city's Cave Hill Cemetery. more…

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