Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AUBADE, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS


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AUBADE, by                    
First Line: When fair hyperion dons his night attire
Last Line: As storms in june or blossom-boughs in may.
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Eyes; Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Spring


When fair Hyperion dons his night attire,
Purple and silver, and his eyes with sleep
Go trembling, and the lids a-kissing keep,
And up he wings the plains of heaven the higher,
The starry meadows all uncurl and creep
With twinkling shoots that tremble out and leap
From buds into a blossoming of fire.

When Spring, with primrose-fillet round her brows,
Drifts on the dawn into the hyacinth west,
And flings fresh handfuls hoarded in her nest
Of tasty flowers, to Flora making vows,
The snow leaps down the mountain-side, and, press'd
With weight of leaves, the earth at happiest
Rills into rivers thick from blossom-boughs.

When Liris comes sometime at break of day
To take the vervain-garlands from the door,
I've hung there fresh with dew an hour before,
And chances with soft eyes to look my way,
My heart brims out with love, and crowding o'er,
The passion-songs and rhythms spring and pour,
As storms in June or blossom-boughs in May.





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