Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LOVE'S METEMPSYCHOSIS, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN


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LOVE'S METEMPSYCHOSIS, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brief space for tears and prayers
Last Line: And lead me into life.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion


BRIEF space for tears and prayers
To him who loves and dares
The high gods send;
But laughter-lighted days,
Through all life's winding ways,
Unto the end.

I stand beside the sea,
And salt winds cover me
With spray.
I know that I who stand
Betwixt the sea and land
All day,

Shall be as yellow dust,
Blown here and there—
Heaven's winds shall carry me,
I wist not where.
But this one thing I know,
Where'er my dust shall blow,
The life of love will go.

And if some lily spread
Its golden heart or red
Unto the sun;
And it should chance to be
My love Eulalie,
My dust, like living light
Upon the wind's white wings,
When through the grove she sings,
The flower would find.

Its silver stem would bend
Until its shadow fell
Above me like a bell
That trembles for delight.
The perfume of its breath
Would lift me out of death,
And lead me into life.





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