Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ANSWER, by LEONORA SPEYER


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First Line: Love, you have broken my wings - I cried
Last Line: There is a sound!
Subject(s): Hope; Love - Complaints; Optimism


Love, you have broken my wings—I cried—
And oh, the sky!
Never, never to lift me high!

Only the broken-winged can fly.
Look!—Love replied.

Love, you have shattered the songs of me
And oh, the pain!
Never, never to sing again!

Singing lives on when song is dead.
Listen!—Love said.

There is a sky for a broken wing,
That I have found;
And in the stillness after song,
There is a Sound!





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