Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE GIFT, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL


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THE GIFT, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I thought, beloved, to have brought to you
Last Line: My scorn of all its pains.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Desire; Gifts & Giving; Love


I THOUGHT, beloved, to have brought to you
A gift of quietness and ease and peace,
Cooling your brow as with the mystic dew
Dropping from twilight trees.

Homeward I go not yet; the darkness grows;
Not mine the voice to still with peace divine:
From the first fount the stream of quiet flows
Through other hearts than mine.

Yet of my night I give to you the stars,
And of my sorrow here the sweetest gains,
And out of hell, beyond its iron bars,
My scorn of all its pains.




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