Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LIFE TO LOVE, by COUNTEE CULLEN


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First Line: Four winds and seven seas have called me friend
Last Line: That love is king and creed and persian law
Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology


Four winds and seven seas have called me friend,
And countless roads have known my restless feet;
Deep crystal springs and pollened buds were sweet
For sustenance their princely fare to lend,
While nameless birds from grove and blossomed bend
Deluged my soul with song; if it were meet
To love Life so, then Love will but complete
My joy, for Life with Love can never end.
Love, I have heard the sweet of your voice, have seen
You pass the dawn-flushed singing hills between;
Now suppliant I kneel and pray you show
The mercied sceptre favored Esther saw;
The dawn in me has broke, and well I know
That Love is king and creed and Persian Law.





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