Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LOVE'S DAWNING, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS


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First Line: Her girlish face leaped into loveliness
Last Line: "turned and superbly shouted, ""hello, lil!"
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


Her girlish face leaped into loveliness,
And all its delicate, sweet modellings
Glowed with the light of immemorial springs,
The dim felicities that mornings guess.

Through all her veins the primal riot ran
Vaguely delicious, as a thrush's trill
Wanders the forest, or enchantments thrill
Around the fairy isle of Caliban.

The world grew softly luminous; the breeze
Bore fragrances of unimagined bliss;
Upon her lips it pressed a laughing kiss,
Then flew away and told it to the trees.

And all -- and all because that roguish Bill,
Swinging along to some absorbing game,
Turned his Apollo head and called her name,
Turned and superbly shouted, "Hello, Lil!"





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