Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, REMEMBERED LOVE, by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER


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REMEMBERED LOVE, by                    
First Line: Within the flitting song-life of a leaf
Last Line: O love that bubbled like a rain-kissed rose!
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, J. Corson
Subject(s): Love; Sonnet (as Literary Form)


Within the flitting song-life of a leaf --
Swept far along dim alleys of the mind,
With all the unleashed ardor of the wind --
Blow cluttered flakes of music; even as brief
As sun-caught dew upon a harvest-sheaf,
When summer in her girlish gown goes blind,
And we wear proud solemnities, and bind
Youth's fading tresses with our treasured grief.

Upon these gallant dreams that died it is just
The dark should cast its mantle of repose;
The glittering censer swung is cloaked with rust,
One flickering candle crumbles to its close.
Old incense-draughts of joy have burned to dust --
O love that bubbled like a rain-kissed rose!





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