Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MAIDENS AT REST, by CHAEREMON


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First Line: One lay lit by the moon, breast white and bare
Last Line: As they leaned their necks upon the gentle field.


One lay lit by the moon, breast white and bare,
Her strap off shoulder fallen. There a dancer
From dancing showed her left flank naked in air
Visible, picture living to declare
Of dazzling white to shadow making answer.

And one her arms and dainty wrists revealed
Twining them round the neck of playmate fair;
One -- for being torn the pleated dress must yield --
Her thigh: and love, for lover to despair,
Deep on her laughing summer time was sealed.

They fell in sleep on elecampanon lying,
Or bruising the violets' plumage darkly flying,
And yellow crocus, by their robes concealed
Yet still the underweave with sun's grain dyeing,
As they leaned their necks upon the gentle field.





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