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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE POET TO HIS BELOVED, by ALFRED HENSCHKE Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night when I awoke, I lay naked, and my heart had
Last Line: By morning red dew lay on the meadow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Klabund
Subject(s): Longing
First Line: Last night when I awoke, I lay naked, and my heart had
Last Line: By morning red dew lay on the meadow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Klabund
Subject(s): Longing
Last night when I awoke, I lay naked, and my heart had burst open like a flower.
It blossomed upon my breast like a poppy, a swarm of humble-bees hung about it.
They sang, they sang,
But my body was a wheat-field.
I rocked, I rocked.
And winds passed over me like warm hands.
And a hot hand was among the winds, groping delicately toward my heart.
On a slender stem swayed my heart.
It was grasped, it was broken.
By morning red dew lay on the meadow.
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