Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. WHEN I AM NEAR TO YOU, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poet's Biography First Line: Now when I am near to you, dear friend Last Line: I find my deliverance in you. Subject(s): Friendship; Love | ||||||||
NOW when I am near to you, dear friend, Passing out of myself, being delivered Through those eyes and lips and hands, so loved, so ardently loved, I am become free; In the sound of your voice I dwell As in a world defended from evil. What I am accounted by the world to beall that I leave behind: It is nothing to me any longer. Like one who leaves a house with all its mouldy old furniture and pitches his camp under heaven's blue, So I take up my abode in your presence I find my deliverance in you. | 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 AS A MOULD FOR SOME FAIR FORM by EDWARD CARPENTER |
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