Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CURIOUSLY EVANESCENT, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG


Poetry Explorer

Classic and Contemporary Poetry

CURIOUSLY EVANESCENT, by                    
First Line: There is a love so perfect it requires
Last Line: But it will vanish at a single kiss.
Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Kisses; Love


There is a love so perfect it requires
No touch of clinging lips or clasping hands.
It blossoms not from passion, so demands
No fleshly contact. Chaste this flame which fires
The soul to high endeavor. It inspires
No fevered longings. Of its fragile strands
Man weaves himself a heaven. It withstands
Adversity, for this white love aspires.
But it is delicate as that faint bloom
On purple fruits or on a night moth's wings;
And frail as frostwork so it shares the doom
Of all life's exquisitely lovely things.
It can survive the tomb, such love as this,
But it will vanish at a single kiss.





Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!


Other Poems of Interest...
Home: PoetryExplorer.net