Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EDEN, by CHARLES ERSKINE SCOTT WOOD


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First Line: The garden; the first year and the first june
Last Line: Adam gave us cain.
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Cain


The garden; the first year and the first June;
Bees, in the cherry-blossom snow,
Rehearsed the earliest honey-humming tune,
Mignonette and candy-tuft below.
"Eve, there is a very steady ache
"In my own side, where once you laid.
"Can you not for Pity's sake
"Heal the wound your coming made?"
"Adam, I was born for your delight.
"See how our roof of blue
"Is fretted by the cherry-blossom white,
"The green grass new;
"See how our leopards play, and playing bite.
"Hold me against your side; close, close to you."
Dear little Eve, she was so sweet,
Her girlish breasts, delicately small;
Flower bells upon an ivory wall;
White doves, her slender feet;
Serpent-like, her firm, resilient arms;
Lily stalks, her virginal, white thighs;
Holding for him the infinite surprise;
For her -- what harms!
The bees sang on. The boughs, above,
Scattered snowy rain.
Dear little Eve. She gave us love;
Adam gave us Cain.





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