Natalia’s Resurrection: Sonnet XXVI

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)



Yet so it was. Adrian had hardly set
His lips to those cold lips where death had been,
His eyes those clammy eyelids scarce had wet
With his warm tears and poured his soul between,
Nor yet with eager hands had he undone
That bosom's fastness of its snowy fold,
Ere, lo, on his rapt ear there fell a moan
As of one waking in the night grown cold.
And, even as he held her in his arms,
And gazed into her face by the dim light,
He saw her blue eyes open in alarms,
As wondering who was with her in the night,
And a long shudder pass through all her frame,
And her lips move as half she breathed his name.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABACDEFEGHGHII
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 597
Words 125
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14

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