Dreamers and Other Poems

<p><SPAN name="THE_WEDDING_GOWN" id="THE_WEDDING_GOWN"></SPAN>THE WEDDING GOWN</p> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">She put her wedding-gown away</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">As tenderly as one might close,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">With kissing lips and finger-tips,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">The petals of a rose</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Still held for the Belov&egrave;d's sake&mdash;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">The loveliest that blows.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">She put her wedding-gown away&mdash;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">The quiet place was all astir</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">With vague perfume that filled the room,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Cedar and lavender,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Yet sweeter still about it clung</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">The fragrant thoughts of her.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">She put her wedding-gown away&mdash;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Yet lingered where its whiteness gleamed</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">As one above a sleeping Love,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Oh, thus it was she seemed,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Reluctant still to turn and go</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">And leave him as he dreamed.</span><br/> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />