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


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First Line: I strove, and strove with fate. I leave my throne
Last Line: My once-imperial soul!
Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The


I STROVE, and strove with Fate. I leave my throne
Of proud virginity, pearl-pale, apart,
Where I have loved to sit and hark alone
The dim pure pulses of my dreaming heart.
Behold! most impotent kisses must I rain
From lips for Death kept sweet
On thine indifferent feet
That yearn away to some strange laurelled goal.
Oh! She is fallen, yea, and fallen in vain,—
My once-imperial Soul!





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