Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AN APRIL BLOOM, by JOHN BANISTER TABB


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First Line: Whence are thou? From what chrysalis
Last Line: Her lips between?
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): April


Whence are thou? From what chrysalis
Of silence hast thou come?
What thought in thee finds utterance
Of dateless ages dumb --
Outspeeding in the distance far
The herald glances of a star
As yet unseen?

Wast thou, ere thine awakening here,
In other realms a-bloom?
Or swathed in seamless cerements
Of immemorial gloom,
Till now, as nature's pulses move,
Thou blossomest, a breath of love,
Her lips between?





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