Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. ALL NIGHT LONG, by EDWARD CARPENTER


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TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. ALL NIGHT LONG, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All night long in love, in the darkness, passing through your lips, my love
Last Line: Eyes.
Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love; Religion; Theology


ALL night long in love, in the darkness, passing through your lips, my
love—
Breathing the same breath, being folded in the same sleep, losing sense of
Me and Thee,
Into empyreal regions, beloved of the gods, united, we ascend together.

Then in the morning on the high hill-side in the sun, looking down upon the
spires of the larches and Scotch firs,
Mortal, we tread again the earthy floor.

O Earth, the floor of heaven—
O Sun, shining aloft in the sky so pure—
O children of the sun, ye flowers and streams, and little mortals walking
the earth for a time—
And we too gazing for a time, for a time, for a time, into each other's
eyes.





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