Love
An April Wedding
From My Lyrical Life, First Series (1889)
O April Wedding,
Sad-smiling, shadowy-bright;
The Grave at foot, and overhead
The nierry Bird of Light!
O April Wedding,
The conscious ear at times
Detects the Bell that tolled the knell
Among the Marriage-Chimes!
O April Wedding,
Thy hues together run, —
Through wet eyes seen, — as Red and Green
Will dazzle and grow one!
O April Wedding,
Where Love is crowned in tears,
And on a ground of deepest gloom,
Hope's brightest Bow appears!
O April Wedding,
Thy clouds go all in white;
Those that darkliesl wept are now
Most glorified in light!
O April Wedding,
Glittering in sun and showers
The very grave looks glad To-day,
And dead hands oiler flowers I
Codex Note
From the section "Carmina Nuptialia" of My Lyrical Life, First Series (1889).
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Massey, Gerald. “An April Wedding.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/massey/135/.
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