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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN THE FOREST, by MAURICE BUCHOR First Line: The sky had lost its glorious light Last Line: That whistled through our floating hair. | |||
THE sky had lost its glorious light, Yet was my heart so full of day, I could with Love's exceeding ray Illuminate a boundlcss night. She walked before me as she dreamed, And when the night less dark was grown, My shadow mingled with her own, While to the wind her tresses streamed. My well-beloved, she led the way, And I had wished the road was found To stretch the whole wide world around Without a bar our steps to stay. And we two uttered ne'er a word. In such delightful guise as this, For an eternity of bliss Our footfalls we had gladly heard. Giddy, as if intoxicate With love, I nothing dared to say; My dream, about to fly away, Fluttered its wings in frenzied state. We were two lovers, young and fair, Who wandered through that happy night, All careless of the wind's wild flight, That whistled through our floating hair. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON READING -- . by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH THE FOREST MAID by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT THE LITTLE TURTLE by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY THE MERRY SUMMER MONTHS by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL REVEL by ABUL HASAN OF SANTA MARIA WE'LL GO NO MORE THE WOODLAND WAY by THEODORE FAULLAIN DE BANVILLE |
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