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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BEACON FOR A FLY-BY-NIGHT, by ENID EASTLAND MARKHAM First Line: I take sly trips to heaven from your arms Last Line: Where my return is beaconed by a kiss! | |||
I take sly trips to heaven from your arms: You never guess when I have slipped away, As speculative Night unfolds her charms And you contentedly review the day. Your voice, as bright as long-remembered vows, Dispels the darkness round us, like a light; I fasten every girdle Love allows And poise in brief excitement for my flight. Then I "take off," with neither chart nor route, To drift through clouds of dreams, profuse and wide, And having smoothed my whole horizon out, Again to my substantial world I glide. Ah, Love! How rare a landing place is this -- Where my return is beaconed by a kiss! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ETUDES DE PLUSIERS PAYSAGES DE L' AME: 1 by HAYDEN CARRUTH THE TRANSIENCE OF HANDS by KAREN SWENSON ROBERT FROST RELATES THE DEATH OF THE TIRED MAN by LOUIS UNTERMEYER SONG, FR. ERNEST MALTRAVERS by EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON SONNET - REALITIES: 1 by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS |
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