Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE SEARCH, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT


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First Line: I once adored a woman's face
Last Line: But most a world redeemed from care.
Subject(s): Peace


I once adored a woman's face
And manly beauty gave me joy.
But why delight in human grace?
How soon it fades! How frail a toy!

Once I saw heaven in sunny fields,
On ocean's shore, on mountain sides.
A mystic light nature still yields;
But not for long man's sorrow hides.

Dear saints -- a few such souls I've known --
Have shared with me their peace and light;
But they have seemed so strange, alone,
They gave me no prolonged delight.

While of all these I make complaint,
Still, still I seek a beauty rare, --
Of face and form, of nature, saint, --
But most a world redeemed from care.





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