Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, HOPE, by ERNESTINE RENEE (WHITE) SELLIER


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HOPE, by                    
First Line: My days are tempered by your smile
Last Line: My heart this rapture deep allows.
Subject(s): Happiness; Hope; Joy; Delight; Optimism


My days are tempered by your smile,
Your gentle glance my fate decides,
So may they linger, all the while,
The hours this earth with heav'n divides!

We have not counted, since we met,
The miles our happy feet have trod --
The tender hopes my heart beset
Are like the buds on Aaron's rod:

Green buds that cannot fade with time --
Persuaded to eternal spring,
Defying winter's frosted rime --
The lovely paean hope shall sing!

Sweet hope whose ray the cloud has torn,
Whose beauty all the world endows:
The light of love your eyes have borne,
My heart this rapture deep allows.





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