Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CHAMBER MUSIC: 23, by JAMES JOYCE


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First Line: This heart that flutters near my heart
Last Line: Though love live but a day?
Subject(s): Love


This heart that flutters near my heart

My hope and all my riches is,

Unhappy when we draw apart

And happy between kiss and kiss:

My hope and all my riches -- - yes! -- -
And all my happiness.


For there, as in some mossy nest

The wrens will divers treasures keep,

I laid those treasures I possessed

Ere that mine eyes had learned to weep.

Shall we not be as wise as they
Though love live but a day?









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