Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BEFORE EVE, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY


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BEFORE EVE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a strangeness
Last Line: And the earth and adam knew!
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible


THERE was a strangeness
When the Earth was new ...
Beauty would never quite reveal her face;
She walked apart, dwelt in a hidden place
In Eden—where
There was a secret, too!

The flowers flung their perfume
To the breeze,
And stirred and shivered ... swaying, wondering,
When heavy, hairy bees came thundering ...
And there was questioning
Among the trees!

In all created things
Was wistfulness ...
The beasts were silent ... and apart ... alone;
The singing of a bird was yet unknown—
Earth vaguely yearned,
For what—it could not guess!

Man wandered in the garden,
Wondering, too ...
Earth, full of loveliness, was empty still;
There was an unnamed promise to fulfill. ...
Then Eve came—
And the Earth and Adam knew!





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