Christopher John Brennan

Here you will find the Poem An Hour's Respite of poet Christopher John Brennan

An Hour's Respite

An hour's respite; once more the heart may dream: 
the thunderwheels of passion thro' the eve, 
distantly musical, vaporously agleam, 
about my old pain leave 
nought but a soft enchantment, vesper fable. 
Sweet hour of dream! from the tense height of life 
given back to this dear grass and perfumed shade, 
across the golden darkness 
I feel the simple flowerets where we stray'd 
in the clear eves unmix'd with starry strife. 
Ah! wilt thou not even now arise, 
low-laughing child haunting my old spring ways 
and blossom freshly on my freshen'd gaze, 
sororal in this hour of tenderness, 
an hour of happy hands and clinging eyes ? 
on silent heartstrings 
sweet memory fades in sweet forgetfulness.