Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO MICHAL: SONNETS AFTER MARRIAGE: 5. IN HER ABSENCE, by CHARLES WILLIAMS


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TO MICHAL: SONNETS AFTER MARRIAGE: 5. IN HER ABSENCE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is her couch, this is her very nest
Last Line: Who never yet broke promise or was late.'
Subject(s): Absence; Marriage; Separation; Isolation; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THIS is her couch, this is her very nest,
But O the pillow is untenanted
By her incredible, dear and drowsy head,
And sleepy eyes of loveliness-at-rest;
And easily with the first dawn I guessed
Whose voice awoke me there—did not the bed
Itself complain: 'Ah, whither is she fled
For whom with cunning comfort I am dressed?'

I answer then and cry: 'O yet awhile
Be patient, gentle friend; she comes to-day,
To-night your frame shall love to feel her weight.
Sleep through the sunny hours, nor more revile
Their length than I; she is upon her way,
Who never yet broke promise or was late.'





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