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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DAYBREAK, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The naked pale limbs of the dawn lie sheathed in | |||
The naked pale limbs of the dawn lie sheathed in dove-white folds of lawn But from one scarlet breast I see the cloudy cover slowly drawn. Not all the blood of all our dead, the bright gay blood so gaily shed, Shines with so clear a glow as gleams your breast-flower peering from our bed. All night your body lies and throbs, with cries of love and amorous sobs, Close to my blood-flushed limbs till dawn with gleaming fingers comes and robs Our bright bed of your limbs and hair, and I can only lie and stare And moan in weakness for my loss and crush my brow in sharp despair. Ah, bend above me, dear, and take my life breath with your lips and break My body up as wheaten bread and use my very blood to slake Your parching sudden thirst of lust! Be cruel, love, be fierce and thrust Your white teeth in my flesh and taste how honey-sweet is amorous dust! Ah! slay me with your lips, ah! kill my body's strength and spirit's will, So that at dawn I need not go but lie between your breast-flowers still. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM by RICHARD ALDINGTON IN THE TRENCHES by RICHARD ALDINGTON VICARIOUS ATONEMENT by RICHARD ALDINGTON IMAGES: 1 by RICHARD ALDINGTON IMAGES: 2 by RICHARD ALDINGTON IMAGES: 3 by RICHARD ALDINGTON IMAGES: 4 by RICHARD ALDINGTON IMAGES: 5 by RICHARD ALDINGTON IMAGES: 6 by RICHARD ALDINGTON |
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