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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A DREAM OF HAPPINESS, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poet's Biography First Line: One sat and modelled a most perfect face Last Line: Conceiving heaven, he lived without its gate. Subject(s): God; Happiness; Heaven; Joy; Delight; Paradise | |||
ONE sat and modelled a most perfect face; And they who passed him, marvelling at its grace, Vowed never mortal breathed so blest as he Whose soul held dream of such divinity. He, as he wrought, cursed God.—This was his fate; Conceiving Heaven, he lived without its gate. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE END OF LIFE by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 6 by CONRAD AIKEN THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#19): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND WINTER by MARVIN BELL THE WORLDS IN THIS WORLD by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR A SKELETON FOR MR. PAUL IN PARADISE; AFTER ALLAN GUISINGER by NORMAN DUBIE BEAUTY & RESTRAINT by DANIEL HALPERN HOW IT WILL HAPPEN, WHEN by DORIANNE LAUX IF THIS IS PARADISE by DORIANNE LAUX A BIRTHDAY SONG by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD |
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