Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Ere I lose myself in the vastness and drowse Last Line: To go down to the side of the people who weep in the shadow of death. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The | ||||||||
ERE I lose myself in the vastness and drowse myself with the peace, While I gaze on the light and the beauty afar from the dim homes of men, May I still feel the heart-pang and pity, loveties that I would not release; May the voices of sorrow appealing call me back to their succour again. Ere I storm with the tempest of power the thrones and dominions of old, Ere the ancient enchantment allure me to roam through the star-misty skies, I would go forth as one who has reaped well what harvest the earth may unfold; May my heart be o'erbrimmed with compassion; on my brow be the crown of the wise. I would go as the dove from the ark sent forth with wishes and prayers To return with the paradise blossoms that bloom in the Eden of light: When the deep starchant of the seraphs I hear in the mystical airs, May I capture one tone of their joy for the sad ones discrowned in the night. Not alone, not alone would I go to my rest in the heart of the love: Were I tranced in the innermost beauty, the flame of its tenderest breath, I would still hear the cry of the fallen recalling me back from above, To go down to the side of the people who weep in the shadow of death. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND A SUMMER NIGHT by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL |
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