Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, APRIL DAY, by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM



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APRIL DAY, by                    
First Line: There is a holiness about an april day
Last Line: Of all these gallant folk!
Subject(s): April


THERE is a holiness about an April day --
A blaze of consecrated light.
Like rising altar smoke the mists are slowly cleared,
Leaving the heavens white.

There is a stateliness in April's silver rain
Like priestesses; a purity
In wet dawn fields where cherry blossoms are unfurled
That cleans and brightens me.

There is a holiness about an April day;
A whispered prayer among the oak. . .
O burn me with the terrible loveliness one hour
Of all these gallant folk!





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