Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO BEAUTY, by JOHN GALSWORTHY


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TO BEAUTY, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beauty on your wings - flying the far blue
Last Line: Beauty! Fulfil me! Cool the heart of my desire!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John
Subject(s): Beauty


BEAUTY on your wings -- flying the far blue,
Flower of man's heart whom no God made;
Star, leaf-breath, and gliding shadow,
Fly with me too, awhile!

Bring me knowledge:
How the pansies are made, and the cuckoos' song!
And the little owls, grey in the evening, three on a gate;
The gold-cups a-field, the flight of the swallow;
The eyes of the cow who has calved;
The wind passing from ash-tree to ash-tree!

For thee shall I never cease aching?
Do the gnats ache that dance in the sun?
Do the flowers ache, or the bees rifling their gold?
Is it I only who ache?
Beauty! Fulfil me! Cool the heart of my desire!





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