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LOVE PLUMES HIS WINGS by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON

Poet Analysis

First Line: LOVE PLUMES HIS WINGS TO FLY AWAY
Last Line: AND LAUGHS TO SCORN OUR IDLE PAIN?
Subject(s): LOVE - LOSS OF;

LOVE plumes his wings to fly away,
And laughs to scorn our idle pain:
Ah, vain it is to laugh and pray!
Love plumes his wings to fly away:
What prayer of ours his flight can stay
When, mocking us with high disdain,
Love plumes his wings to fly away,
And laughs to scorn our idle pain?





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