Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AT BURPHAM, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY


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AT BURPHAM, by                    
First Line: A when a maid awakes at matin toll
Last Line: For news of absent love's imperial wing.
Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


A when a maid awakes at matin toll,
With mouth still pouted to a half-dreamt kiss,
So, by this beauty strangely stirred, my soul
Leans to some partly apprehended bliss.
I dimly feel, and yet in vain would read
The darling secret of this day's blue eye:
Hear what the river tells the willow weed
The while he weds her to the stooping sky.
I only know this comes, O God, from Thee—
A straying leaf from bays about Thy hair
Or fragment of Thy raiment's broidery—
Since none but Thou couldst leave a trace so fair.

For still we question every floating thing
For news of absent Love's imperial wing.





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