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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
INVOCATION, by MARYA ALEXANDROVNA ZATURENSKA Poet's Biography First Line: Make of my voice a blue-edged sword, oh lord! Last Line: A vision consumes me and I am its slave and its lover. | |||
Make of my voice a blue-edged Sword, Oh, Lord! Strengthen my soul to deliver your war-cry, Make of my voice a blue-edged sword, Oh, Lord! Out of my frailness fashion a piercing reed, Out of my pity a great battle ax, Out of my frailness fashion a piercing reed! I have had a vision and I cannot sleep, A vision consumes me and tears me apart, I have had a vision and I cannot sleep. Oh body of mine, make of yourself a stronghold, Gird yourself in the steel of your vision, Oh body of mine, make of yourself a stronghold! Make of my breath an infinite prophecy, Oh, Lord! Make of my song a summons to prayer, Make of my breath an infinite prophecy, Oh, Lord! A vision consumes me and I am its slave and its lover, Make of my spirit a song so that I may announce it! A vision consumes me and I am its slave and its lover. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 8 by EZRA POUND CONRAD AT TWILIGHT by JOHN CROWE RANSOM THE HERETIC: 1. BLASPHEMY by LOUIS UNTERMEYER LEMON PIE by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST THE CHILD'S FIRST GRIEF by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS ROBIN HOOD, TO A FRIEND by JOHN KEATS VENUS OF THE LOUVRE by EMMA LAZARUS THE BELLS OF LYNN; HEARD AT NAHANT by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW TO AN ISLE IN THE WATER by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS TIPPERARY: 4. BY OUR OWN A. E. HOUSMAN by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS |
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