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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SOLICITUDE, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poet's Biography First Line: To me your transport is a dim surmise Last Line: This wonder that my breast has never known. Subject(s): Anxiety | |||
To me your transport is a dim surmise, A vague, imagined bliss. But I will brace Myself to life; though languid for the chase, Will gird my grief. Where your swift pleasure flies -- Beneath whatever mirth-alluring skies -- I'll follow, lest you pause in darkling space. Oh, let me gather stars, and turn your face To these, lest, meeting night, you breathe faint sighs! Is joy illusion? This, in sooth, is clear, -- The pause of weariness; and should I hear You drop a single sombre semitone From Paradise, I'd gather every star; For I divine what it must be to mar This wonder that my breast has never known. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE LIFE OF TOWNS: ANNA TOWN by ANNE CARSON IT JUST SO HAPPENS by JAMES GALVIN TURN OFF THE NEWS by ANSELM HOLLO THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 37 by KENNETH REXROTH IN THE TAXI TO THE MRI by RACHEL HADAS IN MY SON'S ROOM, NOT SLEEPING by RACHEL HADAS |
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