Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE UNLOVED TO HIS BELOVED, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY


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THE UNLOVED TO HIS BELOVED, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Could I pluck down aldebaran
Last Line: More vainly turn and stretch to you my hands.
Subject(s): Love - Unrequited


Could I pluck down Aldebaran
And haze the Pleiads in your hair
I could not add more burning to your beauty
Or lend a starrier coldness to your air.

If I were cleaving terrible waters
With death ahead on the visible sands
I could not turn and stretch my hands more wildly,
More vainly turn and stretch to you my hands.





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