Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE ARTIST TO HIS WIFE, by STANLEY KILNER BOOTH First Line: For always there shall be a quest Last Line: While loving you, irrevocably exiled. Subject(s): Art & Artists | ||||||||
For always there shall be a quest, Even though I haunt the unnumbered planets, Among far-distant heavens, an immortal guest. I will seek all the unseen flowers, And finger all the mellifluent bars of unknown melodies, loveliest When intoned within the serene bowers of the unpossessed. Nothing will requite my eternal hunger, Even though I sip the nectar of Olympian spice That gods have tasted and left undefiled. And though I reach the very heights of Paradise And never know a greater love or a more glowing wonder Than your sweet devotion, I will still remain While loving you, irrevocably exiled. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE OLD AND THE NEW MASTERS by RANDALL JARRELL TO A YOUNG ARTIST by ROBINSON JEFFERS BOATS IN A FOG by ROBINSON JEFFERS ART VS. TRADE by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON THE POET VISITS THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS by MARY OLIVER ON PASSION AS A LITERARY TRADITION by JOHN CIARDI CONSOLATION by STANLEY KILNER BOOTH |
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