Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SHOULD I SUDDENLY, by MARY PRUDENCE MORTON


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SHOULD I SUDDENLY, by                    
First Line: Should I suddenly call you beautiful
Last Line: Oh, beautiful, do you understand me?
Subject(s): Beauty


Should I suddenly call you beautiful
Would you understand me and be humble
Before yourself? For I would give to you
In that one word all that is love, to me.

You would be as a swift breath of music
That shatters itself against perfection;
As a hand that curves to break a flower,
Unflexes, and moves away, still empty;

A lonely word that whips tears to the eyes
In its wild agony for loveliness,
In hopeless yearning for the half attained ...
Oh, beautiful, do you understand me?





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