Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. ALL NIGHT LONG, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poet's Biography First Line: All night long in love, in the darkness, passing through your lips, my love Last Line: Eyes. Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love; Religion; Theology | ||||||||
ALL night long in love, in the darkness, passing through your lips, my love Breathing the same breath, being folded in the same sleep, losing sense of Me and Thee, Into empyreal regions, beloved of the gods, united, we ascend together. Then in the morning on the high hill-side in the sun, looking down upon the spires of the larches and Scotch firs, Mortal, we tread again the earthy floor. O Earth, the floor of heaven O Sun, shining aloft in the sky so pure O children of the sun, ye flowers and streams, and little mortals walking the earth for a time And we too gazing for a time, for a time, for a time, into each other's eyes. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MYSTIC BOUNCE by TERRANCE HAYES MATHEMATICS CONSIDERED AS A VICE by ANTHONY HECHT UNHOLY SONNET 11 by MARK JARMAN SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE COMING OF THE PLAGUE by WELDON KEES A LITHUANIAN ELEGY by ROBERT KELLY AS A MOULD FOR SOME FAIR FORM by EDWARD CARPENTER |
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