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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVE SONG, by GEORGE BRANDON SAUL First Line: The delicate silver gates are closed, the road ahead is paved with swords Last Line: Bleed. | |||
The delicate silver gates are closed, the road ahead is paved with swords, There's only the comfort of your breast, the arm's strength, and gentle words To meet the foam of the black stars a stinging wind flings in our faces; A bare room is the day's end, and a hard bed for our bodies' places. The tired limb, and the tight brow, and the strong clasp of a hand hardened -- Only these, now the rose has gone, one with the years that life pardoned When your blue eyes that love deepened were more merry and less brave, Only these are ours, my dear, for what we give and what we gave. Yet only now that our eyes have seen there is no star on the hills ahead To guide through the ways that all have known, yet none could mark, of men dead -- O only now, my dear, have we known the sole answer to love's need: The heart's dream, and the heart's strength, and the light shed where the feet bleed. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPRINGTIME by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE SEALS IN PENOBSCOT BAY by KAREN SWENSON THE DIRTY OLD MAN by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM FESTE'S SONG (2), FR. TWELFTH NIGHT by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THE COTTAGER TO HER INFANT by DOROTHY WORDSWORTH THE MONITOR by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE |
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