Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A NIGHT IN JUNE, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poet's Biography First Line: White as a lily moulded of earth's milk Last Line: As in a lover's heart his sweetheart's name. Subject(s): June | ||||||||
I WHITE as a lily moulded of Earth's milk That eve the moon bloomed in a hyacinth sky; Soft in the gleaming glens the wind went by, Faint as a phantom clothed in unseen silk: Bright as a naiad's leap, from shine to shade The runnel twinkled through the shaken brier; Above the hills one long cloud, pulsed with fire, Flashed like a great enchantment-welded blade. And when the western sky seemed some weird land, And night a witching spell at whose command One sloping star fell green from heaven; and deep The warm rose opened for the moth to sleep; Then she, consenting, laid her hands in his, And lifted up her lips for their first kiss. II There where they part, the porch's steps are strewn With wind-blown petals of the purple vine; Athwart the porch the shadow of a pine Cleaves the white moonlight; and like some calm rune Heaven says to Earth, shines the majestic moon; And now a meteor draws a lilac line Across the welkin, as if God would sign The perfect poem of this night of June. The wood-wind stirs the flowering chestnut-tree, Whose curving blossoms strew the glimmering grass Like crescents that wind-wrinkled waters glass; And, like a moonstone in a frill of flame, The dewdrop trembles on the peony, As in a lover's heart his sweetheart's name. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JUNE (1) by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT KNEE-DEEP IN JUNE by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: JUNE by EDMUND SPENSER JUNE BRACKEN AND HEATHER by ALFRED TENNYSON ADLESTROP by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS CLOUDY JUNE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN WHEN JUNE IS COME by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES TO A JUNE BREEZE by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER JUNE'S COMING by JOHN BURROUGHS KU KLUX by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN |
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