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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HEART'S EASE, by MATHILDE BLIND Poet's Biography
First Line: As opiates to the sick on wakeful nights
Last Line: Has made life's glass go up from foul to fair.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
First Line: As opiates to the sick on wakeful nights
Last Line: Has made life's glass go up from foul to fair.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
AS opiates to the sick on wakeful nights,
As light to flowers, as flowers in poor men's rooms,
As to the fisher when the tempest glooms
The cheerful twinkling of his village lights;
As emerald isles to flagging swallow flights,
As roses garlanding with tendrilled blooms
The unweeded hillocks of forgotten tombs,
As singing birds on cypress-shadowed heights,
Thou art to me -- a comfort past compare --
For thy joy-kindling presence, sweet as May
Sets all my nerves to music, makes away
With sorrow and the numbing frost of care,
Until the influence of thine eyes' bright sway
Has made life's glass go up from foul to fair.
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