Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, JESSIE, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN


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First Line: When jessie comes with her soft breast
Last Line: A stone remote in some bleak gully of the hills!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Breasts


WHEN Jessie comes with her soft breast,
And yields the golden keys,
Then is it as if God caress'd
Twin babes upon His knees --
Twin babes that, each to other press'd,
Just feel the Father's arms, wherewith they both are bless'd.

But when I think if we must part,
And all this personal dream be fled --
O then my heart! O then my useless heart!
Would God that thou wert dead --
A clod insensible to joys and ills --
A stone remote in some bleak gully of the hills!




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