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WHEN BABY WOKE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poet's Biography First Line: When weenty - teenty baby woke Last Line: When baby woke, -- when baby woke. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Babies; Dreams; Sleep; Tears; Infants; Nightmares | ||||||||
WHEN weenty-teenty Baby woke, It seemed all summer blossoms broke In fragrant laughter -- that the birds, Instead of warbles, sang in words! -- Oh, it did seem to us (who, in Our rapture, dappled cheek and chin With our warm kisses) to invoke Our love to break as morning broke! -- When wondrous Baby woke. When our enraptured Baby woke, -- As when on violets sink and soak The dewdrops of some glorious dawn, -- So seemed the eyes we gazed upon; And when they smiled, we, bending lower, Knew never sunlight any more Would be as bright to us -- and thus Forever must they shine for us! When Baby dewed her eyes and woke. When Baby danced her eyes and woke -- The hearts within us, stroke on stroke, Went throbbing like the pulse of some High harmony harp-strings might thrum In halls enchanted of the lore Or Arthur's court in days of yore, -- To us she was "a princess fair" -- An "Elfin Queen" -- "A ladye rare" -- And we but simple-minded folk -- When Baby woke, -- when Baby woke. | Other Poems of Interest...THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND EYES: A DREAM by LYN HEJINIAN VARIATIONS: 14 by CONRAD AIKEN VARIATIONS: 18 by CONRAD AIKEN LIVE IT THROUGH by DAVID IGNATOW A DREAM OF GAMES by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE DREAM OF WAKING by RANDALL JARRELL APOLOGY FOR BAD DREAMS by ROBINSON JEFFERS GIVE YOUR WISH LIGHT by ROBINSON JEFFERS |
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