Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE VICTORIOUS SUITOR, by FRANK PIERCE GALLAGHER


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THE VICTORIOUS SUITOR, by                    
First Line: O rarest rose, by your consent
Last Line: To be the heart's physician.
Subject(s): Love Affairs


O rarest rose, by your consent
I am reborn this day;
I sport in a pool of straight content
Whose balm repeals decay.
Perchance 'tis love's subjective forms
Dictating to my mind;
Amen: against bleak fact it warms;
New worlds I see while blind.

The moon's not now a cold expanse,
A rugged orb, and lifeless;
For as a face of elegance
It smiles on earth now strifeless.
The winking of the stars is shrewd;
They seem to understand,
And pleased by our beatitude,
Their humor's bright and bland.

Such is the power of love to alter,
To plate or varnish nature,
To make a trophy of a halter,
As its own legislature.
Its smallest draught intoxicates --
Sweethearts on that agree --
Never champagne so long elates
Or brings such fluency.

Poor human essence I shall trust
Forever without doubt.
If for no other cause, I must,
Than you, its ideal sprout.
So do I see you and cannot
Fancy another vision.
'Tis love's sublime, eternal lot
To be the heart's physician.





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