Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, GIVE ALL, by CHARLES ERSKINE SCOTT WOOD


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First Line: The maiden-cheeked, fine smelling peach has come
Last Line: "give all you have to give."
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Love


The maiden-cheeked, fine smelling peach has come,
The purple and the yellow plum.
Walk with me beneath the tree
Where the wasp and banded bee
Rifle the broken sweet
With fiercely amorous mouth and feet.
Hold up the golden cup,
Your mouth, to me.
Soft is the sunny air
And almost like to swoon
With the hot scents of noon
Which circle everywhere.
Drying leaves and dying,
And wide-armed Earth
Crying in voluptuous mirth,
"O is it not enough?
"Take all I have to give,
"All, all the precious stuff
"By which you live.
"Globed grapes are cups of wine,
"Acorns drop for snouted swine;
"Lovers, see what way is mine;
"Give all you have to give."





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