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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 and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THEY HAVEN'T HEARD THE WEST IS OVER by JAMES GALVIN SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MRS. PURKAPILE by EDGAR LEE MASTERS NO EXEMPTION FOR TOURISTS by KAREN SWENSON THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH THE COMFORTING by MARGARET E. BRUNER SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 19 by THOMAS CAMPION CALLER WATER by DANIEL CARMICHAEL |
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