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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EXILE, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: My hands have not touched pleasure since your hands
Last Line: Set in the tryst-ring has but worn more bright.
Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart
Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation
First Line: My hands have not touched pleasure since your hands
Last Line: Set in the tryst-ring has but worn more bright.
Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart
Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation
(after the Chinese)
My hands have not touched pleasure since your hands, --
No, -- nor my lips freed laughter since 'farewell',
And with the day, distance again expands
Voiceless between us, as an uncoiled shell.
Yet love endures, though starving and alone.
A dove's wings cling about my heart each night
With surging gentleness, and the blue stone
Set in the tryst-ring has but worn more bright.
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