Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, NO ONE SEES BEAUTY, by ANNE O'HARE MCCORMICK


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NO ONE SEES BEAUTY, by                    
First Line: So many times have I made testaments
Last Line: And life tastes sweeter with each faltering breath.
Subject(s): Beauty


So many times have I made testaments;
So many times said farewell to the sun;
Brightened with tears the magic color spun
Upon the looms of spring; borne the last scents
Of clover fields beneath the dripping tents
Of summer clouds; turned sadly one by one
From roads and hills that beckon, seas that run
With my doomed dreams to far, lost continents.
No one sees beauty who has not seen death.
I know how dear is dust, how soft is rain,
How warm the grass, how deep the starry skies.
I know, who pay for loveliness with pain,
That earth is fairest fading from the eyes,
And life tastes sweeter with each faltering breath.





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