Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SHE CAME TO ME, by RAY CLARKE ROSE


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SHE CAME TO ME, by                    
First Line: She came to me
Last Line: And the past was lost in the radiant flame!
Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Paradise; Male-female Relations


She came to me
Like a vision of immortality!
Out of the night
Of my sorrowful search and earthly blight;
She came like a dream of the far-off sea
That silvers the shores of eternity—
God's angel came,
And my soul leaped high in a vestal flame,
But my face burned red
With the scarlet fires of new-lit shame;
For sweet were the loving words she said,
And pure the trust I read in her eyes;
For lo! she was love's great sacrifice!
There in the night
Of my evil past she sang to me—
Sang to my heart of a new delight;
And never a word could I make reply,
And never a word could I answer why;
For my shame choked high and death became
A coveted balm to soothe my shame!
She sang of love that purifies
Till my soul, at the gates of paradise,
Burned white in the light of her golden eyes,
And the past was lost in the radiant flame!





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