Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, GRAVID, by HELEN HOYT (1887-1972)


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First Line: You go slender and light as before
Last Line: But out of the air too is the flower grown.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lyman, W. W., Mrs.
Subject(s): Togetherness


You go slender and light as before
With your straight stride;
But the weight that weighs down in me
You also bear in your side.

The slackening of my step,
The slowing of my life's beat,
Makes your life also slacken,
To keep your feet slow with my feet.

The child turns in my flesh,
The dream of him turns in your heart:
Of our patience and all our waiting,
Your part is an equal part.

In the last pang, in the last persistence,
It is my strength must endure;
But ah, your will in my will
Is what shall make me sure!

Together we are bearing, beloved;
Not I, the woman, of myself alone:
The flower is formed out of the earth,
But out of the air too is the flower grown.





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