Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE GARMENT, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD


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THE GARMENT, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I made a garment of kisses
Last Line: Lashes the birches.
Subject(s): Kisses


I MADE a garment of kisses
For her lips and eyes;
The garment was woven
From a fount of sighs --
And she'll wear my garment
Until one day dies.

Then will she toss it away
And another shall bring
Her silks and a high name
And a costly ring
Such as no bard or seer
Ever could bring.

And when she grows tired
Of the prince and his play
She'll hunt for that garment
Which she tossed away --
The garment of kisses
I wove her that day.

But she will not find it
Wherever she searches --
Down the cool aisles
Of the high, pillared churches,
Or out where the wild rain
Lashes the birches.





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