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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DRINK WELL, by LOIS LORING First Line: If losing you meant I should be alone Last Line: In one who thirsts and holds an empty cup! | |||
If losing you meant I should be alone With tranquil moments stripped of all desire; With but the deadened bellows that have blown A truant warmth in the now blackened fire, I would but speed your going, but I know Such meek reward was never meant for me; That I shall follow where your footsteps go, Groping through woods I am too tired to see. And dream of comfort and a lamplit room, And warmth to take away the constant chill, And flowers whose names I do not know, to bloom In yellow boxes on our window-sill. What tempting thoughts desire can conjure up In one who thirsts and holds an empty cup! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WHAT THING A BIRD WOULD LOVE by ROBERT FROST CLOSING TIME AT THE SAN DIEGO ZOO by KAREN SWENSON THE CAPTIVE LION by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES CREDO by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY MOZART'S REQUIEM by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS FAREWELL, UNKIST by THOMAS WYATT |
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