Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ESSENCE, by LAILE EUBANK


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ESSENCE, by                    
First Line: These sweet and heart-filled days
Last Line: To keep some fragrance still unspent...
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Perfume


These sweet and heart-filled days
Have brought a fear:

Perhaps our love is like the glamour
Of my pale perfumes
That soon with subtle mystery
Will disappear.

Back to its phial
I bring a little of my soul.
I pour the taunting scent,
To stay evaporation
To keep some fragrance still unspent...





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