Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE PROMISE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS


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THE PROMISE, by                    
First Line: Alas! For stifled love, as tho' dull earth
Last Line: Then let thy world within flame to love's glowing kiss!
Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Love; Night; World; Bedtime


ALAS! for stifled Love, as tho' dull Earth
Enamoured of the Night, and dusky Ocean
In Litany of seeming self-devotion,
By some dark magic should retard the birth
Of struggling Dawn, that lends a golden worth
To Beauty dreaming on the misty plain,
And Grace in sullen slumber on the rippling Main.

So fares a World whose elements conspire
To check the advent of transfiguring Glory:
For rosy glow grey gloom, and self's one story
From human ebb and flow unlit by fire
Whose gleam reveals that Heavenward all aspire.
Blaze forth, bright Sun! disturb that baneful sleep
And gild the wavelets on each soul's unquiet deep.

And is thy life to be a day of June,
A course, tho' chequered, of celestial splendour,
Whose light is beautiful, whose shade is tender,
Where sparkling heart-waves chime in restful tune,
Where Morn impassioned yields to fiery Noon,
Whose radiance softens into Evening bliss?
Then let thy world within flame to Love's glowing kiss!





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