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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BORDERLANDS, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Through all the evening
Last Line: O hidden, o perfect, o desired! O first and final fair!
Subject(s): Evening; Fear; Sleep; Sunset; Twilight
First Line: Through all the evening
Last Line: O hidden, o perfect, o desired! O first and final fair!
Subject(s): Evening; Fear; Sleep; Sunset; Twilight
Through all the evening,
Al the virginal long evening,
Down the blossomed aisle of April it is dread to walk alone;
For there the intangible is nigh, the lost is ever-during;
And who would suffer again beneath a too divine alluring,
Keen as the ancient drift of sleep on dying faces blown?
Yet in the valley,
At a turn of the orchard alley,
When a wild aroma touched me in the moist and moveless air,
Like breath indeed from out Thee, or as airy vesture round Thee,
Then was it I went faintly, for fear I had nearly found Thee,
O Hidden, O Perfect, O Desired! O first and final Fair!
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