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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HARDEST IT IS, by FRANCIS REGINALD SCOTT
First Line: Your touch is a torch
Last Line: Hardest it is to touch yet have and hold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. R.
Subject(s): Longing; Pleasure; Touch (sense)
First Line: Your touch is a torch
Last Line: Hardest it is to touch yet have and hold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. R.
Subject(s): Longing; Pleasure; Touch (sense)
Your touch is a torch,
A bruise, the spirit broken,
Slow movement under an arch,
The sea's interminable motion.
Pressure slackens, too long extended,
Pressure quickens, infinitely withheld,
Between hard and harder lies the ecstasy.
Hardest it is to touch yet have and hold.
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