Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONNET: 48, by GEORGE SANTAYANA


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First Line: Of helen's brothers, one was born to die
Last Line: I go to burn beside thee in the skies.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


Of Helen's brothers, one was born to die
And one immortal, who, the fable saith,
Gave to the other that was nigh to death
One half his widowed immortality.
They would have lived and died alternately,
Breathing each other's warm transmuted breath,
Had not Zeus, who justly ordereth,
Made them twin stars to shine eternally.
My heart was dying when thy flame of youth
Flooded its chambers through my gazing eyes.
My life is now thy beauty and thy truth.
Thou wouldst come down, forsaking paradise
To be my comfort, but by Heaven's ruth
I go to burn beside thee in the skies.





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