Love Poems and Others/Wedding Morn
WEDDING MORN
The morning breaks like a pomegranate In a shining crack of red,Ah, when to-morrow the dawn comes late Whitening across the bed,It will find me watching at the marriage gate And waiting while light is shedOn him who is sleeping satiate, With a sunk, abandoned head.
And when the dawn comes creeping in, Cautiously I shall raiseMyself to watch the morning win My first of days,As it shows him sleeping a sleep he got Of me, as under my gaze,He grows distinct, and I see his hot Face freed of the wavering blaze.
Then I shall know which image of God My man is made toward,And I shall know my bitter rod Or my rich reward.And I shall know the stamp and worth Of the coin I’ve accepted as mine,Shall see an image of heaven or of earth On his minted metal shine.
Yea and I long to see him sleep In my power utterly, I long to know what I have to keep, I long to seeMy love, that spinning coin, laid still And plain at the side of me,For me to count—for I know he will Greatly enrichen me.
And then he will be mine, he will lie In my power utterly,Opening his value plain to my eye He will sleep of me.He will lie negligent, resign His all to me, and IShall watch the dawn light up for me This sleeping wealth of mine.
And I shall watch the wan light shine On his sleep that is filled of me,On his brow where the wisps of fond hair twine So truthfully,On his lips where the light breaths come and go Naïve and winsomely,On his limbs that I shall weep to know Lie under my mastery.