Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, IT CANNOT BE WISDOM, by TANIA BROOK


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IT CANNOT BE WISDOM, by                    
First Line: This swift overture that beauty plays
Last Line: Inviolate and numb.
Subject(s): Beauty; Grief; Wisdom; Sorrow; Sadness


This swift overture that beauty plays
Upon the nerves
So expands the spirit
It cannot be wisdom
To ignore or fear it;

The keen expectancy
It wakes in every sense
Is subtle recompense --
To have known
Beauty close is to have grown;

Better from the musicale in sorrow,
Its warm overtones
A token for tomorrow,
Than to cold wisdom
Succumb
Inviolate and numb.





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