Lyrics Rapunzel sonnets of Emilie Autumn

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Your sugar sits untouched

2005

01. Your sugar sits untouched
02. Goodbye
03. The day you love
04. At what point does a shakespeare say
05. Blackbird sonnets
06. Constant
07. Ghost
08. How to break a heart
09. Rant i
10. In praise of cyrano
11. So many fools
12. The ballad of mushroom down
13. The one
14. Space
15. Alas (the knight)
16. A letter from a friend
17. A plea to the dying
18. Close
19. Dreams
20. Everybody's girl
21. Empty
22. Homesick sonnets
23. Rant ii
24. Little boy
25. Smirking girl
26. Try my best
27. Nearer than you
28. The muse
29. The music i heard once
30. If you could only know
31. Funny how things change
32. I didn't mean you
33. If
34. Visions
35. By the sword
36. Didn't
37. If you feel better
38. Two masks
39. What right have i
40. Woman
41. I cried for you
42. Rapunzel sonnets
43. Never tasted tears
44. Jump the track
45. On artistic integrity
46. Manipulation

Rapunzel sonnets

Sonnet I
Dreaming from my tower
In the air
Higher than the trees
Surrounding close
Wondering if men
Would find me fair
Footsteps down below
Break my repose
The mist about my window
Hinders me
From viewing
Who would enter in my court
But so few visitors I chance to see
Intent I am
On making my report
And tuning my sweet song
Towards the earth
I’ll change my fate
Which left me here since birth

Sonnet II
Six notes
Only had I sounded
When
The footsteps came nearer my prison wall
Trembled I
Yet sounded them again
And from what seemed the pit of earth
Heard call
A voice
Quite different
From those I had heard
Though I could count that number on one hand
My lips
Too dry to speak a single word
I wondered
Why I had not better planned
And tried in vain to step back from the sill
For something held my hair
And kept me still

Sonnet III
I tried to scream
But sound I could not make
My frightened wit had robbed me of my speech
I thought of how my tresses
I might break
But spied the scissors
Just beyond my reach
Frantically
I fumbled through my skirts
Searching for my dagger in the fold
The same I used
For tearing linen shirts
And as I knew
Not what of me had hold
To sacrifice my braids
I raised my knife
Too late!
I now must kill to save my life

Sonnet IV
My point directed at the stranger’s chin,
No time was left for severing his rope
But shall I murder him
Or let him in?
I was too stunned at what I saw
To hope for some salvation
I knew I was lost
Whichever was my choice
It mattered not
The mist had cleared
My innocence the cost
And for one endless moment
I was wrought
Of human flesh
And human cares and fears
The fantasy of fables
Read for years

Sonnet V
A face it was
Yea, it had lips and eyes
But unlike that which greets me in the glass
In its twin orbs
I saw no less surprise
And so we stood
Two statues made of brass
I gazing in his eyes
And he in mine
As though we might have read each other’s thoughts
He smiled slowly
As one
Drunk with wine
When suddenly the forest rang with shots
The hunters oft’ before had come too near
And so I bid adieu
To all my fear

Sonnet VI
Hardly knowing half of what I did
But well aware the half
I knew was mad
I grasped his arms as virtue may forbid
And pulled the creature with what strength I had
Into the chamber
To the floor we fell
Then scrambled I
To my poniard retrieve
And asked him now
At death’s third door
To tell
Why cam’st he hence
And bade him not deceive
For if he should be false
Despite his beauty
Though I be fooled
My dagger knew its duty

Sonnet VII
His lips then moved
But not a sound was heard
I saw them
As two petals from a rose
When finally
He was fit to say a word
I was content examining his nose
He made some mention
Of a songbird’s tune
I was not listening
But o’erlooked his brow
He claimed
He would have climbed up to the moon
I wished to give him peace
But knew not how
He had not thought his rope a maiden’s hair
Upon my life
I found the creature fair!

Sonnet VIII
The deed explained
He begged of me my name
“Rapunzel”
I replied
“A man thou art?”
“I am”
The creature laughed
“The very same
How long hast thou been kept from life
Apart?”
I told him how
For one and twenty years
My home had been the walls
He saw around me
How no amount of pleading
Nor no tears
Have gained a visitor
Until he found me
But when I think upon it
I recall
For staring
He did not hear me at all

Sonnet IX
It seemed to me
We may as well not speak
His eyes had gone
As cloudy as the day
He asked if he might
Come again that week
And I knew
He must soon be gone away
He took my hands
And pressed them in his own
As if by doing so
He should stay longer
He told me of the world
I might have known
Vowing to return
And slay my wronger
Then promising no harm
His head he bent
And kissed my lips
Then out the sill he went

Sonnet X
Lowering himself
As he had come
Through the mist
My creature disappeared
Riding back
To all that he was from
And all that I could never be
I feared
And yet
What raven locks fell 'round his face
What gentle eyes
As gray as seagulls wings
A voice so soft
My words cannot replace
The memory
Of a thousand lovely things
And so I’ll dream again
Of arms more sweet
The dagger
I had dropped
Lies at my feet

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Sonnet II
Six notes 
Only had I sounded 
When 
The footsteps came nearer my prison wall 
Trembled I
Yet sounded them again 
And from what seemed the pit of earth 
Heard call 
A voice 
Quite different 
From those I had heard 
Though I could count that number on one hand 
My lips 
Too dry to speak a single word
I wondered 
Why I had not better planned 
And tried in vain to step back from the sill 
For something held my hair 
And kept me still

Sonnet III
I tried to scream 
But sound I could not make 
My frightened wit had robbed me of my speech 
I thought of how my tresses 
I might break
But spied the scissors 
Just beyond my reach 
Frantically 
I fumbled through my skirts 
Searching for my dagger in the fold 
The same I used 
For tearing linen shirts 
And as I knew 
Not what of me had hold
To sacrifice my braids 
I raised my knife 
Too late! 
I now must kill to save my life

Sonnet IV
My point directed at the stranger’s chin,
No time was left for severing his rope 
But shall I murder him 
Or let him in? 
I was too stunned at what I saw 
To hope for some salvation
I knew I was lost 
Whichever was my choice 
It mattered not 
The mist had cleared
My innocence the cost 
And for one endless moment 
I was wrought 
Of human flesh 
And human cares and fears 
The fantasy of fables 
Read for years

Sonnet V
A face it was
Yea, it had lips and eyes
But unlike that which greets me in the glass 
In its twin orbs 
I saw no less surprise 
And so we stood
Two statues made of brass 
I gazing in his eyes
And he in mine 
As though we might have read each other’s thoughts 
He smiled slowly 
As one 
Drunk with wine 
When suddenly the forest rang with shots 
The hunters oft’ before had come too near
And so I bid adieu 
To all my fear

Sonnet VI
Hardly knowing half of what I did 
But well aware the half 
I knew was mad 
I grasped his arms as virtue may forbid 
And pulled the creature with what strength I had 
Into the chamber
To the floor we fell
Then scrambled I 
To my poniard retrieve 
And asked him now
At death’s third door 
To tell 
Why cam’st he hence
And bade him not deceive 
For if he should be false
Despite his beauty
Though I be fooled
My dagger knew its duty

Sonnet VII
His lips then moved 
But not a sound was heard 
I saw them 
As two petals from a rose 
When finally 
He was fit to say a word
I was content examining his nose 
He made some mention 
Of a songbird’s tune 
I was not listening 
But o’erlooked his brow 
He claimed 
He would have climbed up to the moon 
I wished to give him peace
But knew not how 
He had not thought his rope a maiden’s hair 
Upon my life
I found the creature fair!

Sonnet VIII
The deed explained
He begged of me my name 
“Rapunzel” 
I replied
“A man thou art?” 
“I am” 
The creature laughed
“The very same 
How long hast thou been kept from life 
Apart?” 
I told him how 
For one and twenty years 
My home had been the walls 
He saw around me 
How no amount of pleading
Nor no tears 
Have gained a visitor 
Until he found me 
But when I think upon it 
I recall
For staring
He did not hear me at all

Sonnet IX
It seemed to me 
We may as well not speak 
His eyes had gone 
As cloudy as the day 
He asked if he might 
Come again that week 
And I knew 
He must soon be gone away 
He took my hands 
And pressed them in his own 
As if by doing so 
He should stay longer 
He told me of the world 
I might have known 
Vowing to return 
And slay my wronger 
Then promising no harm
His head he bent 
And kissed my lips
Then out the sill he went

Sonnet X
Lowering himself 
As he had come
Through the mist 
My creature disappeared 
Riding back 
To all that he was from 
And all that I could never be 
I feared 
And yet 
What raven locks fell 'round his face 
What gentle eyes 
As gray as seagulls wings 
A voice so soft 
My words cannot replace 
The memory 
Of a thousand lovely things 
And so I’ll dream again 
Of arms more sweet 
The dagger 
I had dropped 
Lies at my feet