Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LOVE AND DEATH, by GEORGIANA GODDARD KING


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LOVE AND DEATH, by                    
First Line: Love and death is all of poets' singing
Last Line: Love and death.
Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The


LOVE and death is all of poets' singing,
What sounds else can stir the heavenly breath?
What save these can set the lyre-strings ringing:
Love and death?
What things else in maiden spirit springing?
What words else in all the preacher saith?
What thoughts else in God, the world forthbringing?

In the moon's pulse and the sea's slow swinging,
Death that draws, and love that sighs beneath:
Yea, life's wine is mingled; sweet, and stinging, --
Love and death.





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