Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE AWAKENING, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you lie sleeping; golden hair Last Line: What though your heart should ache! Subject(s): Passion; Waking | ||||||||
When you lie sleeping; golden hair Tossed on your pillow, sea shell pink Ears that nestle, I forbear A moment while I look and think How you are mine, and if I dare To bend and kiss you lying there. A Raphael in the flesh! Resist I cannot, though to break your sleep Is thoughtless of me -- you are kissed And roused from slumber dreamless, deep -- You rub away the slumber's mist, You scold and almost weep. It is too bad to wake you so, Just for a kiss. But when awake You sing and dance, nor seem to know You slept a sleep too deep to break From which I roused you long ago For nothing but my passion's sake -- What though your heart should ache! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...POEM IN ORANGE TONES by MARVIN BELL ON RISING FROM THE DEAD by CAROLYN KIZER WAKING EARLY SUNDAY MORNING by ROBERT LOWELL THE WAKING (2) by THEODORE ROETHKE WAKING FROM SLEEP by ROBERT BLY SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ALEXANDER THROCKMORTON by EDGAR LEE MASTERS |
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