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RARE DESTINY, by FLORA LOUISE BAILEY First Line: While there is life within me I will praise Last Line: My body with such radiant happiness? | ||||||||
While there is life within me I will praise The gods who, giving life, have made it sweet. Paeans of adoration will I raise, And pour libations at their sacred feet. Music surpassing either lute or lyre, Incense more fragrant than they ever knew Shall be my gifts, in this my one desire To offer sacrifice because of you. What claim had I on Heaven that she make An earthly replica of love's own form; Or give me her celestial wine to slake A thirst induced by lips mobile and warm? By what rare destiny came these to bless My body with such radiant happiness? | Other Poems of Interest...VARIATIONS: 10 by CONRAD AIKEN PROLONGED SONNET: WHEN THE TROOPS WERE RETURNING FROM MILAN by NICCOLO DEGLI ALBIZZI THE POET AND HIS SONG by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR W'EN I GITS HOME by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR NEUTRALITY LOATHSOME by ROBERT HERRICK SONNET TO A NEGRO IN HARLEM by HELENE JOHNSON |
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