The Awakening
Edgar Lee Masters
1868 to 1950
When you lie sleeping; golden hair
Tossed on your pillow, seashell pink
Ears that nestle, I forbear
A moment while I look and think
How you are mine, and if I dare
To bend and kiss you lying there.
A Raphael in the flesh! Resist
I cannot, though to break your sleep
Is thoughtless of me—you are kissed,
And roused from slumber dreamless, deep—
You rub away the slumber's mist,
You scold and almost weep.
It is too bad to wake you so,
Just for a kiss. But when awake
You sing and dance, nor seem to know
You slept a sleep too deep to break,
From which I roused you long ago
For nothing but my passion's sake—
What though your heart should ache!
Edgar Lee Masters's The Awakening
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