Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LOVE'S PHANTOM, by MATHILDE BLIND


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LOVE'S PHANTOM, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shut out day's wintry beams
Last Line: Why take thy flight?
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Love - Complaints


SHUT out day's wintry beams!
Sleep, brood upon my brain!
For sweet sleep bringeth dreams
And love again!
Love cold and wan and sere
Heaped over with tears and snows;
Lo, born within its bier,
Blooms like a rose!

Its fragrance fills each vein,
Its fervour flushes my heart,
I feel through breast and brain
Its rapturous smart;
The look, the tone, the deep
Supreme smile of delight:
Ah, fickle as love, false sleep,
Why take thy flight?





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