Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, HER MOUTH AND MINE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES


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First Line: As I lay dreaming, open-eyed
Last Line: "greedy-in-love, leave go! Leave go!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Kisses


AS I lay dreaming, open-eyed,
With some one sitting at my side,
I saw a thing about to fly
Into my face, where it would lie;
For just above my head there stood
A smiling hawk as red as blood.
On which the bird, whose quiet nest
Has always been in my left breast,
Seeing that red hawk hovering there,
And smiling with such deadly care --
Flew fascinated to my throat,
And there it moaned a feeble note.
I saw that hawk, so red, and still,
And closed my eyes -- it had its will:
For, uttering one triumphant croon,
It pounced with sudden impulse down;
And there I lay, no power to move,
To let it kiss or bite its love.
But in those birds -- Ah, it was strange --
There came at last this other change:
That fascinated bird of mine
Worried the hawk and made it whine;
The hawk cried feebly -- "Oh dear, oh!
Greedy-in-love, leave go! Leave go!"





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