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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 5, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR.
First Line: There is no rest where weary mortals dwell
Last Line: A fleeting moment from an hour of pain.
Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love; Passion
First Line: There is no rest where weary mortals dwell
Last Line: A fleeting moment from an hour of pain.
Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love; Passion
There is no rest where weary mortals dwell,
There is no peace where sorrow bides the time,
Save in love's boundless arms, where rise and swell
Life's fairest moments into hours sublime.
Here where men, weeping, spend a passing day,
See one grand sun-set and its after-glow,
Feel a brief passion, then the heart's decay,
God rest me as I stand beneath the blow.
Send to my heart a purging flame of love,
Suaging my tears with its consuming fire,
Whelm me with passion that shall never rove
Save to the beckon of my love's desire.
For love I crave tho follows grief amain—
A fleeting moment from an hour of pain.
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