Amid The Florid Multitude Her Face

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Title:     Amid The Florid Multitude Her Face
Author: Alan Seeger [More Titles by Seeger]

Amid the florid multitude her face
Was like the full moon seen behind the lace
Of orchard boughs where clouded blossoms part
When Spring shines in the world and in the heart.
As the full-moon-beams to the ferny floor
Of summer woods through flower and foliage pour,
So to my being's innermost recess
Flooded the light of so much loveliness;
She held as in a vase of priceless ware
The wine that over arid ways and bare
My youth was the pathetic thirsting for,
And where she moved the veil of Nature grew
Diaphanous and that radiance mantled through
Which, when I see, I tremble and adore.

[The end]
Alan Seeger's poem: Amid The Florid Multitude Her Face [sonnet]

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