Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AFFINITY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS


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AFFINITY, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You are not made for me
Last Line: That were shaken for me and you?
Subject(s): Circe; Hearts; Moon; Sea; Sun; Ocean


You are not made for me.
Out of the burning sun
Where he sank into the sea
They moulded your glowing breast.
Circe! What have I done
That you should trouble my rest?
You are not made for me.

I was not made for you.
Long since, in the marsh-lands old,
Where the wailing curlew flew,
And the wind talked to the ghouls,
And the moon lay drowned in the pools,
My heart was frozen with cold.
I was not made for you.

Was it drunk with mischief the high,
Immortal, opposeless Will,
Which ruled that you and I
Should the same fate fulfil?
"Marry the fire to the frost,
And see what the atoms will do!"
Is that how the dice were tossed
That were shaken for me and you?





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