Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVE AND THE MUSE, by MATHILDE BLIND Poet's Biography First Line: Struck down by love in cruel mood Last Line: My tears dissolve on cataracts of song. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Love | ||||||||
STRUCK down by Love in cruel mood, That I ever met Love I rued, Bleeding and bruised I lay, Wet was my face as with the salt sea spray. A lovely Muse on sparkling wing A painless elemental thing, Free as bird did float, Swift flames of song light leaping from her throat. And being more pitiful than Love Stooped glowing from her path above, And an unearthly kiss Laid on my lips: Muse, answer, what is this? In dreams or drunkenness divine My life is all transfused with thine; Like bubbles swept along, My tears dissolve on cataracts of song. | 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 |
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