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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AWAKE, MY LOVE, by ALLAN CUNNINGHAM Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awake, my love! Ere morning's ray Last Line: Proclaim the sweets of wedlock round. | |||
AWAKE, my love! ere morning's ray Throws off night's weed of pilgrim gray; Ere yet the hare, cower'd close from view, Licks from her fleece the clover dew: Or wild swan shakes her snowy wings, By hunters roused from secret springs: Or birds upon the boughs awake, Till green Arbigland's woodlands shake. She comb'd her curling ringlets down, Laced her green jupes, and clasp'd her shoon; And from her home, by Preston-burn, Came forth the rival light of morn. The lark's song dropp'd, -- now loud, now hush, -- The goldspink answer'd from the bush; The plover, fed on heather crop, Call'd from the misty mountain top. 'T is sweet, she said, while thus the day Grows into gold from silvery gray, To hearken heaven, and bush, and brake, Instinct with soul of song awake; -- To see the smoke, in many a wreath, Stream blue from hall and bower beneath, Where yon blithe mower hastes along With glittering scythe and rustic song. Yes, lovely one! and dost thou mark The moral of yon carolling lark? Takest thou from Nature's counsellor tongue The warning precept of her song? Each bird that shakes the dewy grove Warms its wild note with nuptial love; The bird, the bee, with various sound, Proclaim the sweets of wedlock round. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MY AIN COUNTREE by ALLAN CUNNINGHAM THE POET'S BRIDAL DAY SONG by ALLAN CUNNINGHAM THE SPRING OF THE YEAR by ALLAN CUNNINGHAM GENTLE HUGH HERRIES by ALLAN CUNNINGHAM JOHN GRUMLIE by ALLAN CUNNINGHAM RICHARD BOOTH TO HIS SON JUNIUS BRUTUS by EDGAR LEE MASTERS |
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