Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MY LADY'S BATH, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP


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MY LADY'S BATH, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O the sky hung dark and shaded
Last Line: At the pearl-white glimpse of her.)
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Beauty; Night; Women; Showers & Showering; Bedtime


O THE sky hung dark and shaded
And the winds were ill at rest,
And the slow black clouds paraded
Heavily from east to west—

When my Lady's whim did strip her
Pure and soft as she was born,
Off she drew each small gold slipper
By a bare bush harsh with thorn.

Then the sun his eyes unclouded
With the right arm of a gale
And a rainbow arched and prouded
Like a peacock's spreading tail.

(See! The questing wind reposes,
Boughs to green-leaved bourgeon stir,
And the thorn-bush blushes roses
At the pearl-white glimpse of her.)





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