Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TALL LOVER, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON


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First Line: If you were only six feet tall
Last Line: Could lift me from the jaws of death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love


IF you were only six feet tall,
How many times I'd make you bend
To reach whatever I let fall!
I'd watch your casual hand extend
With measured grace—or awkwardness—
A hundred times a day, no less!

But since you claim two inches more,
And wear so large a dignity,
How should I bid you bend it for
Some trivial thing, dropped carelessly?
And not to shame you, I'll watch out,
And keep from scattering things about.

But if sometime you hear me ask
Your strength of you, you must not mind
That it's no Herculean task
For one so powerful and kind,
Who, easily as taking breath,
Could lift me from the jaws of death.





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