Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SURFEIT, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER


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SURFEIT, by                    
First Line: I am betrayed by multiplicity
Last Line: Had for horizon his own straining knees.
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Creation; God; Religion; Self; Eve; Theology


I am betrayed by multiplicity
And crowded to the wall by my own kind;
If I should smile, ten thousand eyes agree,
If I would shout my woe I cannot find
An empty space to weep. About me walk
The shapes whose substance is my very own,
While beauty blooms a dozen to the stalk,
And death is common as a paving stone.
But this I know beyond complaint and curse,
That Adam once cast forth to find his place
Upon an empty star, knew nothing worse
Than in his mind the crowding of God's face;
And that a galley slave on endless seas
Had for horizon his own straining knees.





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