Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, JEWEL WORDS, by ALICE FERRIN HENSEY


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JEWEL WORDS, by                    
First Line: Give me, o muse, from your great opulence
Last Line: For the adorning of dear beauty's brow.
Subject(s): Beauty


Give me, O Muse, from your great opulence,
Rare words transcendent, that I may adorn
With gems of flawless beauty, Beauty's self—
Clear words of faultless beauty marvelous,
To bind upon her beautiful white brow,
Like a mad ruby or an empress-pearl
Whose price was travail in deep fearsome mines,
Or glad quick diving 'neath jade-silver spray;
So let me dig deep in the lonely mine of thot,
Or plunge through passion's silver-crested deeps
To bring up jewel-words—flawless, divine,
For the adorning of dear Beauty's brow.





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