Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON HARTING DOWN, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poet's Biography First Line: Once, when their hearts were wild with joy Last Line: Musings retired or neared. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge | ||||||||
ONCE, when their hearts were wild with joy, They bedded on the downs: Hours drifted past, the dawn grew ghast, Their polls wore dewy crowns. While the stars paled, she, first, awoke And saw, no more alone, They kernel were to a herd of deer, Come round them all unknown. A dun buck couched upon the left, A white doe to their right, An hundred others, like watching mothers, Loomed peacefully out of night. Ere she could wake him, they rose and were shaking Small droplets from cold thighs; Proudly the leader then streamed them afar To where the sun would rise. Till, dot by dot, they threaded the arch His lifting forehead raised, And, sublimed to light, were lost to sight, Though still enthralled she gazed. Her lover rose and, leaning close, Through to her mind he peered; Parked therein, numerous, timid, dumb Musings retired or neared. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SILENCE SINGS by THOMAS STURGE MOORE THE DYING SWAN by THOMAS STURGE MOORE THESEUS by THOMAS STURGE MOORE A MIDNIGHT ECSTASY by THOMAS STURGE MOORE A TORRENT: 2 by THOMAS STURGE MOORE ALCESTIS IS SPOKEN OF by THOMAS STURGE MOORE ALCESTIS SPEAKS by THOMAS STURGE MOORE AN OLD SNATCH DREAMED OVER by THOMAS STURGE MOORE BEFORE REREADING SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS by THOMAS STURGE MOORE |
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