Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, APRIL, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE



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First Line: At morn when light mine eyes unsealed
Last Line: Hath stamped the work of nature's mints.
Subject(s): April


AT morn when light mine eyes unsealed
I gazed upon the open field;
The rain had fallen in the night --
The landscape in the new day's light
A countenance of grace revealed
Upon the meadow, wood and height.
The sun's light was a smile of gold,
Ere shut by sudden fold on fold
Of surging, showering clouds from view;
No sooner hid than it broke through
A tearful smile upon the wold
Where earth reflected heaven's blue.
Each separate divided part
Of day, was as the threefold art
Of God, who dreamed three dreams and made
The morning, noon, and night parade
In ever changing guise athwart
The day's hours, in His dreams arrayed.
The sky was as a canvas spun
To paint the new spring's nocturnes on;
A blended melody of tints --
The sea's hue, and the myriad hints
Of garden-closes, when the sun
Hath stamped the work of nature's mints.





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