Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO - (3), by EDGAR ALLAN POE


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First Line: I saw thee on thy bridal day
Last Line: The world all love before thee.
Variant Title(s): Song
Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


I saw thee on thy bridal day --
When a burning blush came o'er thee,
Though happiness around thee lay,
The world all love before thee:

And in thine eye a kindling light
(Whatever it might be)
Was all on Earth my aching sight
Of Loveliness could see.

That blush, perhaps, was maiden shame --
As such it well may pass --
Though its glow hath raised a fiercer flame
In the breast of him, alas!

Who saw thee on that bridal day,
When that deep blush would come o'er thee,
Though happiness around thee lay;
The world all love before thee.





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