Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE KISS, by ANNA ELISABETH MATHIEU DE NOAILLES Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet, fervent couples, in your spring flight! Last Line: Through love and death. Alternate Author Name(s): Brancovan, Princess Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love | ||||||||
Sweet, fervent couples, in your spring flight! Love as the days fashion: All, shadow, song, perfume, and light, Bind and unbind passion. While yet you are faithful, spend and rouse Your warm unreason, You will not hold your eternal vows Till the next season. The wind that mingles the branches or parts them Has less sudden play Than the desire of beings that starts them One to the next, and away. The gentle rustlings of earth and of ocean, Grain thrusting higher, Sorrow, and death, direct their motion More than desire. Joyful in the gardens where green summer settles You laugh and call, But the intertwined fingers, even as the petals, Move to their fall. The eyes whose looks dance like bees aswarm Their store to bring, Will no longer yield you, equally warm, Honey and sting. There will no longer in your hearts abide Harmonious breath, Your souls will crabbedly subside Through love and death. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD I FIGHT AGAINST YOU by ANNA ELISABETH MATHIEU DE NOAILLES I WRITE TO TELL by ANNA ELISABETH MATHIEU DE NOAILLES IT WILL BE LIGHT THIS EVENING by ANNA ELISABETH MATHIEU DE NOAILLES |
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