Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LIKE CLEAR MUSIC, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON


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First Line: Long-buried women, ye arise for me
Last Line: And do but freshen with the fall of years.
Subject(s): Life; Music & Musicians; Tears; Women


LONG-BURIED women, ye arise for me
With more of Life and Life's reality
Than all the living whom I see and touch:
Sappho and Helen, Joan who died for France,
And that Scotch queen with magic in her glance;
And, like clear music out of ancientry,
Rizpah and Ruth, and Mary who loved much. --
A text you are for man's delights and tears,
And do but freshen with the fall of years.





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