Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: 5, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poet's Biography First Line: All loves have frailer roots than loves that start Last Line: Born in the honored home from which we came. Subject(s): Love | ||||||||
ALL loves have frailer roots than loves that start From one ancestral blood. The friends we find In youth pass on before us, or behind Are dropped, or on diverging paths depart, While branches from one trunk still own one heart, And bud and bear from one maternal mind. Sister and brother need no vows to bind Their pre-ordained alliance, nor the art Of lovers plotting through a thousand fears Lest love, of passion born, should fade or change; Nor dread the undermining drip of years; Nor stand on forms that other souls estrange. Such love is ours, and theirs who bear our name, Born in the honored home from which we came. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD CORRESPONDENCES; HEXAMETERS AND PENTAMETERS by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH |
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