"Betrayed" (A Poem)

In “The Death Potion,” Lizette Woodworth Reese explores the role of the jilted lover, telling a tale where the narrator creates a potion to take the life of the woman who stole her beloved. In “Betrayed,” the author continues the theme, calling upon Death to console her broken heart. 

 

She is false, O Death, she is fair!

Let me hide my head on thy knee;

Blind mine eyes, dull mine ears, O Death!

She hath broken my heart for me!

 

Give me a perfect dream;

Find me a rare, dim place;

But let not her voice come nigh,

And keep out her face – her face![1] 

 

Works Referenced 

 

Reese, Lizette Woodworth. “Betrayed.” A Handful of Lavender. Boston, MA: Houghton, Mufflin, and Company, 1891. 11

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[1] Reese, 11.