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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON WAKING FROM A DREAMLESS SLEEP, by ANNIE (ADAMS) FIELDS First Line: I waked; the sun was in the sky Last Line: While the sands of night have run? | |||
I WAKED; the sun was in the sky, The face of heaven was fair; The silence all about me lay, Of morning in the air. I said, Where hast thou been, my soul, Since the moon set in the west? I know not where thy feet have trod, Nor what has been thy quest. Where wast thou when Orion past Below the dark-blue sea? His glittering, silent stars are gone, -- Didst follow them for me? Where wast thou in that awful hour When first the night-wind heard The faint breath of the coming dawn, And fled before the word? Where hast thou been, my spirit, Since the long wave on the shore Tenderly rocked my sense asleep, And I heard thee no more? My limbs like breathing marble Have lain in the warm down; No heavenly chant, no earthly care, Have stirred a smile or frown. I wake; thy kiss is on my lips; Thou art my day, my sum! But where, O spirit, where wast thou While the sands of night have run? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BEETHOVEN'S SIXTH SYMPHONY (ANDANTE) by ANNIE (ADAMS) FIELDS CEDAR MOUNTAIN [AUGUST 9, 1862] by ANNIE (ADAMS) FIELDS DEATH OF HAWTHORNE by ANNIE (ADAMS) FIELDS LITTLE GUINEVER by ANNIE (ADAMS) FIELDS THE RETURN by ANNIE (ADAMS) FIELDS THEOCRITUS by ANNIE (ADAMS) FIELDS NORTH WINTER by HAYDEN CARRUTH JANUARY by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS GUILIELMUS REX by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH A SERMON AT CLEVEDON; GOOD FRIDAY by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN |
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