Ophelia

A. Strilko

My locks are shorn for sorrow

Of love which may not be;

Tomorrow and tomorrow

Are plotting cruelty.

The winter wind tangles

These ringlets half-grown,

The sun sprays with spangles

And rays like his own.

Oh, quieter and colder

Is the stream; he will wait;

When my curls touch my shoulder

He will comb them straight.