Mulberries and Me

What is an elegy?

An elegy is a poem of sorrow and of mourning, once metered but now defined by its somber nature more than anything.

	Metamorphoses (Oxford World's Classics) Thisbe and Pyramus: The story appears for the first time in Ovid, and all subsequent treatments-most notably Shakespeare's in A Midsummer Night's Dream-go back to him. He tells the story with a delicate touch and a straight face. Price: $5.16 List Price: $8.95
	A Midsummer Night's Dream (The New Folger Library Shakespeare) Thisbe and Pyramus encounter the wall and the lion, but where are the mulberries? Price: $2.25 List Price: $5.99

All Pyramus, all loving fool
Deceived while yet deceiving

All lion's blood, all reddened juice
White mulberry transcending

Midsummer night where death offending
Thisbe his sword her breath upending

Assemble, families, come.

Mourn the girl the boy neighbor friend
The wall the hole they could not mend

Repeatedly refrain from claiming
Lion souls absorb the blaming

So the snake, as she reveals the nest
Gently goes to her good rest.

But the lioness without her mate
Wanders grasses to the desert gate

"Weep for naught," dear friends might say
As they absorb the bright of day

Light and shadow pass through time

And in the meadow windbreaks
bloody sidewalks with their fat, black mulberries

succulent and full of juice

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