Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LOVE, by JEAN INGELOW


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First Line: Who veileth love should first have vanquished fate
Last Line: Though watched of the divine hesperides.
Subject(s): Fate; Life; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Destiny; Male-female Relations


WHO veileth love should first have vanquished fate.
She folded up the dream in her deep heart,
Her fair full lips were silent on that smart,
Thick-fringed eyes did on the grasses wait.
What good? one eloquent blush, but one, and straight
The meaning of a life was known; for art
Is often foiled in playing nature's part,
And time holds nothing long inviolate.
Earth's buried seed springs up -- slowly, or fast:
The ring came home, that one in ages past
Flung to the keeping of unfathomed seas:
And golden apples on the mystic trees
Were sought and found, and borne away at last,
Though watched of the divine Hesperides.





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