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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SOUL UNTO SOUL GLOOMS DARKLING, by CHARLES LEONARD MOORE Poet's Biography First Line: Disguise upon disguise, and then disguise Last Line: To know what planet rules the tides within. | |||
DISGUISE upon disguise, and then disguise, Equivocations at the rose's heart, Life's surest pay a poet's forgeries, The gossamer gold coinage of our art. Why hope for truth? Thy very being slips, Lost from thee, in thy crowd of masking moods. Why hope for love? Between quick-kissing lips Is room and stage for all hate's interludes. One with thy love thou art! -- her eyes, her hair Known to thy soul, a pure estate of bliss; But some least motion, look, or changed air, And nadir unto zenith nearer is: Thou mayst control her limbs, but not begin To know what planet rules the tides within. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OR EVER THE EARTH WAS 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 VERSES FROM THE GRANDE CHARTREUSE by MATTHEW ARNOLD SACRED ELEGY: 5. THE SEPARATION OF MAN FROM GOD by GEORGE BARKER TO THE PLIOCENE SKULL by FRANCIS BRET HARTE THE DARKNESS OF EGYPT by MARIA ABDY |
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