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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IF ONE SHOULD COME, by MAHLON LEONARD FISHER
First Line: If one should come from out the calm to-night,
Last Line: As one who tempted death and caused his fall!
Subject(s): Aging
First Line: If one should come from out the calm to-night,
Last Line: As one who tempted death and caused his fall!
Subject(s): Aging
If One should come from out the Calm to-night,
Leaving the Grievous Question yet unsolved,
I think I should not marvel how involved
Can every beauty be in Beauty's sight.
I think I should not wish for nor delight
In the old close communion, soul with soul;
Nor care to let dead years exact their toll,
Nor old emotions move me with their might;
But hasten to receive her as a queen,
Not wholly blameless, who hath gained what Age
Must humbly ask for; who, with Youth for gage,
Won ingress to the Hidden and Unseen;
Who, with her puissant beauty, purchased all; --
As one who tempted Death and caused his fall!
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