Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TWO SONGS, by ANN HAMILTON (1902-)


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TWO SONGS, by                    
First Line: Through the long dusk my spirit sings
Last Line: Or day or night be there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Anna E.; Hamilton, A. E.; Hamilton, Anne E.
Subject(s): Dusk; Forests; Singing & Singers; Sun; Woods; Songs


I

Through the long dusk my spirit sings
To hear the wind break through the wood
Blowing against the blackbirds' wings,
And in the twilight it is good
To watch the dark come down the hill
And see the drifted oak-leaves blow
Into the stream beside the mill,
For love goes always where I go
And burns within the lost bird's cry --
Love in the naked orchard-trees
Like a late whisper comes; the sky
Flings out two lonely stars, and these
Over the new moon-crescent rise
Ghostly, beneath love's eyes.

II

Sunlight wakens me after dream
And through the day upholds the hours
Like laughter, and the twilights seem
Gentle as flowers
Remembered from a summer's wreath.
The spent moon lifting into gold
Comes kindly, knowing how beneath
Earth's dark indifference, I hold
Love flung across my heart, nor care
Whether a moon be young or old
Or day or night be there.





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