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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DISENCHANTMENT, by CHARLES LEONARD MOORE Poet's Biography First Line: The mighty soul that is ambition's mate Last Line: Fear now no thing but immortality. | |||
THE mighty soul that is ambition's mate, Tied to the shiftings of a certain star, Forgets the circle of its mortal state And what its planetary aspects are, Till, in conjunctive course and wandering, Out of its trance and treasure-dream of hope It wakens, poor illusionary thing, Wingless, without desire, or deed, or scope. So have I with imaginations played Till I have lost life's sure and single good, Forgotten friendships, broken vows, and made My heart a highway for ingratitude, And, driven to the desert of the sky, Fear now no thing but immortality. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SOUL UNTO SOUL GLOOMS DARKLING by CHARLES LEONARD MOORE THEN SHALL WE SEE by CHARLES LEONARD MOORE THOU LIVEST, O SOUL! by CHARLES LEONARD MOORE TO ENGLAND by CHARLES LEONARD MOORE ON THE SLAIN COLLEGIANS by HERMAN MELVILLE KENTUCKY BELLE by CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON WRITTEN IN IRELAND by MARY (CUMBERLAND) ALCOCK LOVER'S LAMENT by EVA K. ANGLESBURG TO THE NEW YEAR, 1823 by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD S. BARNABAS by JOSEPH BEAUMONT |
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