The Vampire Bride - Henry Thomas Liddell

[Miss RED]

There's a poem that I've been liking for a long time now (=

 

The Vampire Bride

Henry Thomas Liddell

 

" I am come - I am come!

Once again from the tomb,

in return for the ring which you gave;

that I am thine, and that thou art mine,

this nuptial pledge receive."

 

He lay like a corse 'neath the Demon's force,

and she wrapp'd him in a shround;

and she fixed her teeth his heart beneath,

and she drank of the warm life - blood!

 

And ever and anon murmur'd the lips of stone,

"soft and warm is this couch of thine,

thou' it to-morrow be laid on a colder bed -

Albert! That bed will be mine!"