Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CONSUMMATUM EST, by DIANA JAMES


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CONSUMMATUM EST, by                    
First Line: Light is more beautiful for it is dying
Last Line: They only knew the dust of their desires.
Subject(s): Desire; Love


Light is more beautiful for it is dying,
Peace is more beautiful that doth depart,
Daylight more lovely with the evening
Radiance that blinds the tired heart.

The summer time is richer with more pain
Locked in the white inexorable hold
Of winter, and the lifting of the rain
Is dawn again and wonder to the old.

The dawn of love is stranger than the dawn,
The light of love more shining than the stars,
Yet when the lovers' season was outworn
They only knew the dust of their desires.





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