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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVE IN ARMOR, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love scorns that love implore you Last Line: His sword against the field! Subject(s): Love | |||
Love scorns that Love implore you To bind his hurts or heal; Prays only, arm around you, To draw on hours that hound you, To whirl his sword before you And fence your path with steel. Not for the beauty of you, The peace of all your ways, He burns, -- but in your quarrel To hold the pass of peril, To stand at arms above you Against embattled days. No comfort for his blundering He cries your heart to yield, But that his arm enfold you, His shield-arm shield and hold you Safe, while the foe charge thundering, -- His sword against the field! | 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 THE FALCONER OF GOD by WILLIAM ROSE BENET |
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