Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FAIREST HOUR, by FRANCIS VIELE-GRIFFIN


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First Line: Fairest hour, we must part
Last Line: And I did not—truthfully—know you were here.
Subject(s): Dreams; Time; Waiting; Nightmares


Fairest hour, we must part;
You adorned with dreams and roses,
Toward the night and the void that never discloses.

Yet I awaited you as for a lover.
I purified my soul, in dreams to see
Your shoulder, where I found my chastity
And the trembling kiss that should my soul discover;

From afar, when I lifted my eyes, from far away,
It was you that culled where the grape clings,
It was you tossing the new-mown hay,
And your step was every flurry of wings;

You were my hope; and then you were near
In your frail beauty laughing and dear,
Girdled with love and with joy—and away!
Between yesterday and tomorrow there is no today,
And I did not—truthfully—know you were here.





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