Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVE'S APOTHEOSIS, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poet's Biography First Line: Love me. I care not what the circling years Last Line: Awaits for you! Subject(s): Love | ||||||||
LOVE me. I care not what the circling years To me may do. If, but in spite of time and tears, You prove but true. Love me -- albeit grief shall dim mine eyes, And tears bedew, I shall not e'en complain, for then my skies Shall still be blue. Love me, and though the winter snow shall pile, And leave me chill, Thy passion's warmth shall make for me, meanwhile, A sun-kissed hill. And when the days have lengthened into years, And I grow old, Oh, spite of pains and griefs and cares and fears, Grow thou not cold. Then hand and hand we shall pass up the hill, I say not down; That twain go up, of love, who've loved their fill, -- To gain love's crown. Love me, and let my life take up thine own, As sun the dew. Come, sit, my queen, for in my heart a throne Awaits for you! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD A BANJO SONG by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR |
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