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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SABINE STORY, by A. HARRISON
First Line: Morning unwound the sunlight's saffron spool
Last Line: They struggled in a union wild and sweet.
Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form)
First Line: Morning unwound the sunlight's saffron spool
Last Line: They struggled in a union wild and sweet.
Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form)
Morning unwound the sunlight's saffron spool;
Brief supplication breathed a girl in prayer
The gods would send her lover to her there;
She flung her azure robe beside the pool.
A tense man watched her plunge into the cool
Of early waters ... oh, to touch her hair!
To smooth her torso beautiful and bare,
And curve his hands about her breasts!—a fool
Was he?—Her body was so petal-white!
As lotus-flowers allured her lilting feet,
Like little breezes they were quick and light;
He longed to thrust his sword with love replete
Deep in her shining form ... that moonlit night
They struggled in a union wild and sweet.
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