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Atticus

(15,124 posts) Sat Feb 24, 2018, 01:25 AM Feb 2018

I KNEW it! Trump has always triggered a nagging memory of a poem I encountered a half century ago.

I finally took the time to track it down and reread it:: "The Highwayman", by Alfred Noyes. The villain of the tale it tells is Tim, "the ostler" with "hair like mouldy hay".

Mystery so!ved.

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I KNEW it! Trump has always triggered a nagging memory of a poem I encountered a half century ago. (Original Post) Atticus Feb 2018 OP

I remember that!!!! dixiegrrrrl Feb 2018 #1

I was probably the same age when I read that. The rhythm really sticks with you. nt Hekate Feb 2018 #2

I quoted that poem bmbmd Feb 2018 #3

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)

1. I remember that!!!!

Reply to Atticus (Original post)

Sat Feb 24, 2018, 02:11 AM

Feb 2018

Something about "her hair as black as midnight" or something..
I was about 9 when I red it...it may even have been a school assignment.

Ahhh.found it.

He rose upright in the stirrups. He scarce could reach her hand,
But she loosened her hair in the casement. His face burnt like a brand
As the black cascade of perfume came tumbling over his breast;
And he kissed its waves in the moonlight,
(O, sweet black waves in the moonlight!)
Then he tugged at his rein in the moonlight, and galloped away to the west.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43187/the-highwayman

thanks for the memory.