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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
JOURNEY FROM COPENHAGEN TO SKODSBORG, by ALFRED HENSCHKE Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the hedge the elder-blossoms lean
Last Line: The sun and moon.
Alternate Author Name(s): Klabund
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips
First Line: Across the hedge the elder-blossoms lean
Last Line: The sun and moon.
Alternate Author Name(s): Klabund
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips
Across the hedge the elder-blossoms lean
To bid me stay, with pleadings more than human.
For they are mine, and I to them have been
Given, as is remembrance to a woman.
The sea runs blue. More violet the bloom
Of my heart's flowers, where swayed syringas bud.
Mimosa nears. Blonde Spring leaps up in spume
To beckon me into the early flood.
The farther coast, which Swedish fog invests,
Crooks a slim finger, as to importune.
And my hands clasp, as though they held two breasts,
The sun and moon.
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