Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVE'S POWER, by WINIFRED LANGWORTHY BROWN First Line: You ask me what I think of life and love Last Line: And speak the magic word that lifts its own. Subject(s): Love | ||||||||
You ask me what I think of life and love, And if I count them fit to compensate For all the strife and stress of fear and hate, And all the stark disharmonies that shove (Without the smallest pin-point inkling of) The soul of man from bliss of heaven's state To that impasse where he would rail at fate Until, befogged, he sees no light above. I say to you: Transcending all the list Of ills you marshall, love can stand alone, Serene, though all should strike with mailed fist, For love can grant to life its overtone, And pierce by brightest panoply through mist, And speak the magic word that lifts its own. | 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 A QUOI BON DIRE by CHARLOTTE MEW |
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