Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONG (7), by ANNE BATTEN CRISTALL


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First Line: The eve descends with radiant streaks
Last Line: Than the wild fervour of his tongue.


THE eve descends with radiant streaks,
Sweetly serene and grandly gay,
While western tinges flush the cheeks,
And insects 'mid the zephyrs play.


Young CYMON, with a rapturous heart,
Whom woodland scenes and pleasures drew,
Roved while his sweet poetic art
From Nature stole its noblest hue.


On wild-thyme banks the poet sung,
Harmonious thither called his fair,
Where blooming roses clustering hung,
And every sweet perfumed the air.


Attentive to the well-known song
Whose warbled sounds pervade the grove,
Blushing she heard, and sped along,
Her thrilling bosom fired with love.


As on the odorous bank he pours
A lover's song, a lover's sighs,
He saw her glowing, decked with flowers,
Affection beaming from her eyes.


As summer suns unfold the rose,
Or heightening sweets embalm the grove,
So as he gazed she deeper glows,
And every look was fraught with love.


While o'er her face the zephyrs play,
A thousand charms delight each sense,
Joined to the blushing bloom of May
The sweeter hue of innocence.


Her lovely hands a garland bound,
Then on his head she placed the wreath,
His locks with flowering myrtles crowned,
Laurels and roses waved beneath.


The vivid fires thrilled through his breast
As energetic strains he sung;
Her artless eyes still more expressed
Than the wild fervour of his tongue.






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