Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO MY CHILD, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER


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TO MY CHILD, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Child of my heart! My sweet, beloved first-born!
Last Line: Bewildered in divine elysian dreams?
Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller
Subject(s): Children; Childhood


Child of my heart! My sweet, beloved first-born!
Thou dove, who tidings bring'st of calmer hours!
Thou rainbow, who dost come when all the showers
Are past, -- or passing! Rose which hath no thorn, --
No pain, no blemish, -- pure and unforlorn,
Untouched -- untainted -- O, my flower of flowers!
More welcome than to bees are summer bowers, --
To seamen stranded life-assuring morn.
Welcome! a thousand welcomes! Care, who clings
Round all, seems loosening now her snake-like fold!
New hope springs upwards, and the bright world seems
Cast back into her youth of endless springs! --
-- Sweet mother, is it so? -- or grow I old,
Bewildered in divine Elysian dreams?





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