Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE WIND OF MAY, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poet's Biography First Line: O glorious wind, that in my lover's face blowest Last Line: Disclose thy heart, o wind, and the love thou bearest. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Love | ||||||||
O GLORIOUS wind, that in my lover's face blowest, Even as now in minethough the deep sea part us Fragrant wind, with heart so tenderly laden, Tell him, my lover, against whose face thou goest, In his ears and nostrils and eyes and thick hair rippling Whose passion-fountain he too, nightlong, daylong, Drinks at, inbreathing theesweet wind, O tell him My love like thine for ever endures, and fails not. Great cloud-wet wind, through the thick woods heavily trailing, Mid millions of flowers their sex-life's sweetness exhaling, Hyacinth-bell and May-bloom in countless beauty: Feed him, body and soul, with secrets fairest, Disclose thy heart, O wind, and the love thou bearest. | 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 AS A MOULD FOR SOME FAIR FORM by EDWARD CARPENTER |
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