Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, COME AWAY!, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY


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COME AWAY!, by                    
First Line: Ah, love! Come away with me
Last Line: A magic memory.
Subject(s): Absence; Love; Memory; Separation; Isolation


AH, love! Come away with me
To where the purple islands be;
To islands in the Southern sea,
Where the kindly breadfruit grows
And the red hibiscus blows,
Come away with me!

Come soon, for fear of death, the thief;
Make me a bed of fern and leaf
Where I may sleep away my grief:
Sleep away the sad fatigue
Lying southward league on league,
Come, for time is brief.

And I in turn will heap thee high
The scented leaves and grasses dry,
And at my lord's feet softly lie
Till the peerless Southern dawn
Call to some enchanted lawn
New delights to try.

And then to range the island round
And share the harvest we have found
Beside our fire upon the ground;
Till reflected in thine eyes,
Fairer stars than these arise,
So may joys abound!

Come, love! Come away with me:
If we return all men shall see
The afterglow of ecstasy!
In our eyes a light, a gleam,
Deep within our eyes a dream,
A magic memory.





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