Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CHARTED COURSE, by CLARA HYDE


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CHARTED COURSE, by                    
First Line: Always there will be waiting women, son
Last Line: Penelope will thread the patient loom.
Subject(s): Advice; Mothers & Sons; Women


Always there will be waiting women, son,
with beauty's lure to trip your eager feet;
eyes that are velvet soft and lips as sweet
as purple plums in summer's halcyon
and languid noon. Delilahs to be won
only by supersacrifice, complete
with your destruction and your sure defeat
until your dreams have crashed oblivion.
Nothing will stay you. Nothing that I can do
will veer you from the course your chart has told;
yet always, somewhere, waits a woman, too,
with love past measure -- Brittany's Isolde --
and, hope undimmed within her cloistral room,
Penelope will thread the patient loom.





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