Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TWO LIVES. PART 1: 6, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poet's Biography First Line: Her beauty was upon me. That alone Last Line: As of some great event of other days. Subject(s): Beauty | ||||||||
Her beauty was upon me. That alone Might well have tortured reason from its place: To look upon that living Titian face, And the fair Milo's form not now in stone, And pass . . . when, though but for a little space, In my young manhood they might be my own! To look . . . and pass. I looked . . . and could not pass. And unto pity for a human lot Came that great pity Beauty had begot (The old Vergilian truth) . . . My memory has, Strangely, half lost her beauty; but there be Some in the town, less close to her sweet ways, Who still remark how beautiful was she, As of some great event of other days. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VARIATIONS: 14 by CONRAD AIKEN DIVINELY SUPERFLUOUS BEAUTY by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE BEAUTY OF THINGS by ROBINSON JEFFERS HOPE IS NOT FOR THE WISE by ROBINSON JEFFERS LIFE FROM THE LIFELESS by ROBINSON JEFFERS REARMAMENT by ROBINSON JEFFERS SHANE ONEILLS CAIRN by ROBINSON JEFFERS TOM MOONEY by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD TWO LIVES: CONCLUSION. INDIAN SUMMER by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD |
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