Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, OF BEAUTY, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG


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OF BEAUTY, by                    
First Line: There is a love so passionate it tears
Last Line: To loveliness that we should be denied?
Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Pain; Passion; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


There is a love so passionate it tears
The heart. We feel its pangs and wonder why—
When gazing at a flaming sunset sky,
Or woods in autumn, or a sea that snares
The moon and stars, or alabaster layers
Of crusted pearl (that magic means whereby
A dream-world rises)—we must ever sigh
With pain aroused by beauty Nature wears.
But why this blissful torment? Can it be
That those who worship beauty grow aware
Of that which mortal was not meant to see;
The splendor flesh was never framed to share?
Is pain a warning that our eyes are wide
To loveliness that we should be denied?





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