Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, POVERTY, by HAMLEN HUNT


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POVERTY, by                    
First Line: I wish I had a gift
Last Line: And nothing more.
Subject(s): Death; Love; Poverty; Dead, The


I wish I had a gift,
Something my own --
A ring in winter carved
From my white bone;

A page illumined in
My blood's best red,
A flagon of pale wine
To prove tears shed.

But nothing mine exists
If I lack breath,
So all my shabby gifts
Die with my death,

And I, so rich in love
Am bond-slave poor,
Who can give all I have
And nothing more.





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