@3Little heart within thy cage so many years—year after year— Beating, still beating, so tenderly yearning For Comrade love, the love which is to come: Often near stopping, or wounded like a bird, so full of pain—thy thread of life almost snapt— Yet with joy so wonderful over all and through all continuing: Soon altogether shalt thou stop, little heart, and the beating and the pain here shall cease; But out of thee that life breathed into the lips of others shall never stop nor cease. Through a thousand beautiful forms—so beautiful!—through the gates of a thousand hearts—emancipated freed we will pass on: I and my joy will surely pass on@1. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CHARLES AUGUSTUS FORTESCUE by HILAIRE BELLOC STORM AT SEA (2) by ALCAEUS OF MYTILENE A LAMENT FOR PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN AN INSCRIPTION by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT CLOWNS' DAY by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON |