Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MONODY, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR


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First Line: Art thou so sad, sweet soul
Last Line: O love me, perfect soul!
Subject(s): Hearts; Love


I.

ART thou so sad, sweet Soul,—
Sad with the sadness of narcissus pale,
Whose delicate odours lingeringly exhale
By rare brown pools the green-blue birches veil,
Sad with the sadness, Love, of souls too pure
Their own consuming beauty to endure,—
Art thou so sad, sweet Soul?

II.

Love me, too-perfect Soul!
For such as thou, stooping to love of me
Surely a fault, a recklessness will be
To check thy fatal flame of purity,—
And yet a fault the gods may well forgive.
For this,—for any reason,—let me live,—
O love me, perfect Soul!





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