Love

"All Last Night"

by Lascelles Abercrombie 1881–1938

From Interludes and Poems (1908)

Love

All last night I had quiet
In a fragrant dream and warm
She had become 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 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.

MLA

Abercrombie, Lascelles. “"All Last Night".” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/abercrombie/6/.

Chicago

Abercrombie, Lascelles. “"All Last Night".” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/abercrombie/6/.

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