WHAT DOES the woman sing to the love-seed under her heart? "Oh, my beloved, unborn, Oh, lips in the darkness that yet shall be kissing my breast: I send my life-blood into you, And great love upon you: Hushed in the pool of the dark you blossom in me! "Beloved! I make this charge upon you: When out of my littleness you come to the sudden vastness, And faces are about you, and cities, and the winds of the deep: Fear nothing, baby: My arms are there: my breasts: your mother meets you!" Thus sings the woman: this is the song of all women: So sang a woman to me. @3Tides of the darkness! Cave of the midnight! Am I still seed? What life-blood flows through the Earth to me: What great love is upon me: Who sings? ... What Mother?@1 | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FOR A CHILD: 1. WALKING SONG by CHARLES WILLIAMS BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY THE BLUET by W. I. LINCOLN ADAMS ON THE PASSING OF THE LAST FIRE HORSE FROM MANHATTAN ISLAND by KENNETH SLADE ALLING THE LORELEI by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE ON THE DEATH OF A DAUGHTER by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SLEEPER'S COUNTENANCE by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES |