Song by Edward J. O'Brien. William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. 1922. Anthology of Massachusetts Poets

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. (1878–1962). Anthology of Massachusetts Poets. 1922.

Song

Edward J. O’Brien

From “Flesh: a Gregorian Ode”


EBB on with me across the sunset tide
And float beyond the waters of the world,
The light of evening slipping from my side,
Thy softened voice in waves of silence furled.

Flow on into the flaming morning wine,	5
Drowning the land in color. Then on high
Rise in thy candid innocence and shine
Like to a poplar straight against the sky.