Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LILAC BLOOMS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER


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LILAC BLOOMS, by                    
First Line: Sweet was the kiss of the singing breeze
Last Line: Content to dream.
Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Lilacs; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares


Sweet was the kiss of the singing breeze,
And rich was the lilacs' scent,
The Poet, a dreamer, lay
Content,
Content to dream,
Not of the winds and the swaying trees,
Nor of the regal purples, bent
By the spring-sent zephyrs of the May;
Ah! no,—not these,
But
Dreams of a full, untrammeled will,
Dreams of a body free from earth,
The Poet, the dreamer, dreamt,
Content
In the thoughts of a Universe to fill
With the hidden music of a higher worth
Than that for the earth-born meant.

Yet he saw in the blooms with a thousand parts,
In the purple and violet tones, and white,
A something beyond the ken
Of men,
Of mortal men;
The unfolding blossoms of the hearts
That had braved a winter's snows, and night,
And rejoiced with the Spring again;
His further dream
This:
That the countless flowers of the mortal soil
Had felt the kiss of the winds of Love,
With the world at peace once more,
Yes,
True peace!
And the racial blooms through a War's turmoil
Had bowed to the Perfect Will above,
To whispers that Hate foreswore!

Like an ocean's breast were the lilac flowers,
On the side of the hill he stood,
The Poet, the dreamer, saw
Entranced
The colored seas,
And oh! how he yearned for diviner powers,
He would right the world,—if he only could,
And rule by sublimer Law;
His God's
Infinite Law;
That the trees and the shrubs and the flowers know,
That the birds of the air and the bees obey,
That the moon and the sun and the stars hold fast;
Love!
God's Love;
The Law that made the lilacs grow,
That scented their tinted petals gay,
The Law that is unsurpassed!

The Poet, a Dreamer, still,
Content,
Content to dream.





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