Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PROGRESS OF LOVE: PETITION, by RUTH ELEANOR MCKEE


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PROGRESS OF LOVE: PETITION, by                    
First Line: Love, who makes false logicians of us all
Last Line: Let radiance lie upon this mortal flower.
Subject(s): Love


Love, who makes false logicians of us all,
Bidding us see perfection where none is,
Confusing truth and beauty with a kiss
That builds new innocence from virtue's fall;
Lest the quick mind disdain the sense's call
And hardily, by strict analysis,
Arrive betimes at a true synthesis,
You blind its eye and make it, too, your thrall.

Lost in the ecstasy of touch delayed,
Grateful before a kindness long deferred,
The grieving flesh is comforted and stayed,
The heavy heart is born a singing bird.
Mad Love, though it must perish in the hour,
Let radiance lie upon this mortal flower.





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