Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ASPIRATION, by HENRIETTA CORDELIA RAY


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ASPIRATION, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We climb the slopes of life with throbbing heart
Last Line: Within us ever stirs. Can we repine?
Alternate Author Name(s): Ray, Cordelia
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Life


We climb the slopes of life with throbbing heart,
And eager pulse, like children toward a star.
Sweet siren music cometh from afar,
To lure us on meanwhile. Responsive start
The nightingales to richer song than Art
Can ever teach. No passing shadows mar
Awhile the dewy skies; no inner jar
Of conflict bids us with our quest to part.
We see adown the distance, rainbow-arched,
What melting aisles of liquid light and bloom!
We hasten, tremulous, with lips all parched,
And eyes wide-stretched, nor dream of coming gloom.
Enough that something held almost divine
Within us ever stirs. Can we repine?





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