Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, INCOMPLETENESS, by DORIS ELFRIDA ESTCOURT


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INCOMPLETENESS, by                    
First Line: Through the clean silence of the wakening / day
Last Line: We glimpse it, but it melts to mist again.
Subject(s): Dreams; Shadows; Nightmares


THROUGH the clean silence of the wakening day
There comes a fleeting breath of mystery;
The night is full of dreams that cannot be
Quite touched or seen, but slip like ghosts away.
The gypsy Spring on morning hills astray
Is flaunting something that we cannot see;
The night wind blowing from a stormy sea
Sweeps through the darkness, sighs and dies away.
And ever and again a longing wakes—
At lights across the water, passers-by,
A note of music, or a cloud that breaks
To show the glory of the evening sky—
A longing for a something sought in vain.
We glimpse it, but it melts to mist again.





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