Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LIGHT AND LOVE, by ANONYMOUS First Line: If light should strike through every darkened place Last Line: If perfect love might reign but one short day! Subject(s): Light;love | ||||||||
IF light should strike through every darkened place, How many a deed of darkness and of shame Would cease, arrested by its gentle grace, And striving virtue rise, unscathed by blame! The prisoner in his cell new hopes would frame, The miner catch the metal's lurking trace, The sage would grasp the ills that harm our race, And unknown heroes leap to sudden fame. If love but one short hour had perfect sway, How many a rankling sore its touch would heal, How many a misconception pass away, And hearts long hardened learn at last to feel: What sympathies would wake, what feuds decay If perfect love might reign but one short day! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD TIS A LITTLE JOURNEY by ANONYMOUS |
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