Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A PROSPECTIVE FATHER STANDS BEFORE THE DOOR OF A DELIVERY ROOM ..., by MARION DOYLE



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A PROSPECTIVE FATHER STANDS BEFORE THE DOOR OF A DELIVERY ROOM ..., by                    
First Line: Now she has gone on this dark pilgrimage
Last Line: Oh armor her with the strong shield of my love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Doyle, Marion Stauffer
Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery


Now she has gone on this dark pilgrimage ...
Her dancing feet have their sunny slope
To wander through a place where flesh must grope
With agony and death ... alone to wage
This conflict ... even love cannot assuage
The burning fangs of Pain, that misanthrope,
Her enemy, with whom I may not cope;
Who will not take my body as hostage
For her release -- not even one racked hour ...
Will she return, bearing the precious fruit
Of love-sown seed that bore our rapture's flower ...
Or not return? God, this is a moment to confute
The works of nature, all the ways thereof ...
Oh armor her with the strong shield of my love.





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