Classic and Contemporary Poetry
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? | Discover our poem explanations - click here!Other Poems of Interest...THE NEGRO DANCERS by CLAUDE MCKAY LOVE by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS ASSAULT by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY VITAI LAMPADA by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT HERE LIES A LADY by JOHN CROWE RANSOM FULFILLMENT by CLARIBEL WEEKS AVERY EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 21. 'TIS CONSTANCY THAT GAINS THE PRIZE by PHILIP AYRES THE FIGHT WITH THE SNAPPING TURTLE; OR, THE AMERICAN ST. GEORGE by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN |
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