Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ANSWER, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT


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First Line: I demanded beauty, tasking
Last Line: Guard your words!
Subject(s): Beauty; Prayer; Wellesley College


I DEMANDED beauty, tasking
Heaven with my asking:
I dared command
Lords of a greater land.
I, who could petition so,
How little did I know!
Fast on beauty's name
Came this blinding flame . . .
Such prayers are always granted, --
But beauty was not what I wanted;
(I, that asked to sing,
Sought not this shattering thing . . .)
Not for searing fire
Was my small desire;
You that pray to unknown lords,
Guard your words!





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