All Last Night

Lascelles Abercrombie 1881 (Ashton upon Mersey) – 1938 (London)



All last night I had quiet
In a fragrant dream and warm:
She became my Sabbath,
And round my neck, her arm.
  
I knew the warmth in my dreaming;
The fragrance, I suppose,
Was her hair about me,
Or else she wore a rose.
  
Her hair I think; for likest
Woodruffe 'twas, when Spring
Loitering down the wet woodways
Treads it sauntering.
  
No light, nor any speaking;
Fragrant only and warm.
Enough to know my lodging,
The white Sabbath of her arm.
  
  
  
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

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Characters 438
Words 87
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4

Lascelles Abercrombie

Lascelles Abercrombie was a British poet and literary critic, one of the "Dymock poets". more…

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