Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, HAWTHORN DYKE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE



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First Line: All the golden air is full of balm and bloom
Last Line: Here are one at heart with all things seen and heard.
Subject(s): Flowers; Hawthorn; Spring


ALL the golden air is full of balm and bloom
Where the hawthorns line the shelving dyke with flowers.
Joyous children born of April's happiest hours,
High and low they laugh and lighten, knowing their doom
Bright as brief -- to bless and cheer they know not whom,
Heed not how, but washed and warmed with suns and showers
Smile, and bid the sweet soft gradual banks and bowers
Thrill with love of sunlit fire or starry gloom.
All our moors and lawns all round rejoice; but here
All the rapturous resurrection of the year
Finds the radiant utterance perfect, sees the word
Spoken, hears the light that speaks it. Far and near,
All the world is heaven: and man and flower and bird
Here are one at heart with all things seen and heard.





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