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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CURIOUSLY EVANESCENT, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG 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...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 BROTHER GENE by EVA K. ANGLESBURG |
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