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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WITHE THE DAWN, by THOMAS CAULFIELD IRWIN Poet's Biography First Line: Why have you risen, to stand with naked feet Last Line: To be alive, and suffer not, is sleep. Subject(s): Love | |||
Husband Why have you risen, to stand with naked feet And thin robe stirring in the airs of night, Looking from the casement? Wife It is sweet To view upon the broad sea, glimmering white, Sails, in the low moonlight. Husband I dream'd that you were lost to me afar, And I had just recovered you once more. Why linger you? -- Wife To watch that last large star Sparkle our cradled child's calm slumber o'er. Soft as the little wave that sweet and frore Rises and sinks upon the sandy shore, -- He breathes; and on his face there comes a smile, Just as the dawn's pale gold has touched, the while, Yon faint cloud cradled on the distant deep. The calm sea-level turns from white to rose; And, as the space a richer glory grows, The earliest bird sings faintly far away Upon the poplar by the ocean steep. Husband Awake him not, oh, dear one, till 'tis day; To be alive, and suffer not, is sleep. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD IPHIONE by THOMAS CAULFIELD IRWIN |
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