Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TRANSCENDENTAL FUGUE (FOR WILLIAM R. FULLER), by JR. DARK ROBERT L. First Line: This love has never been a prairie fire Last Line: Such is the chronicle of our exodus. | ||||||||
This love has never been a prairie fire, Instead a moonstone dropped into a pool. How wan, how fluent are its glimmers, choir Of pellucid hopes that feel encroaching cool Of death without complaint. Symphonic pain Is not their medium. If they could speak Or sing, it would be more like pines in rain And wind. Though love appears as listless, weak It has the strength of silence which outlasts The cold gray life of steel. More like a nun It rests within a simple cell and fasts, Denies itself the warmth of passions' sun. No vagrant thing, this love may be reviewed Which would prove disappointment to the prude. The waves of phosphorescent waters break In jade green fires and foam along the shores As we commune, though wordless. We awake To new rapports and find therein vast stores That dim accounts of legendary wealth. This goodness cools like tropical sereins And, like them, falls without the warning stealth Of clouds announcing that their thirsting pains Will soon be quenched. We hold within our hands The greatest glory that a man may own And both are wise without great wisdom. Bands Of dull restraint are broken. We lie prone. We left the world, attained that meant for us -- Such is the chronicle of our exodus. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WRECK OF THE CIRCUS TRAIN by HAYDEN CARRUTH SONNET: OF THREE GIRLS AND OF THEIR TALK by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO TO WALTER LIONEL DE ROTHSCHILD ON HIS BAR-MITZVAH by LOUIS BARNETT ABRAHAMS THE PATRIOTIC MERCHANT PRINCE by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS BROTHER BENEDICT by ALFRED AUSTIN THE WIDOW OF GLENCOE by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN THE GHOSTS' MOONSHINE by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES HINC LACHRIMAE; OR THE AUTHOR TO AURORA: 33 by WILLIAM BOSWORTH |
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