Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PRAISE, by JAMES SULLIVAN STARKEY


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First Line: Dear, they are praising your beauty
Last Line: Sung in a sigh.
Alternate Author Name(s): O'sullivan, Seumas
Subject(s): Beauty


Dear, they are praising your beauty,
The grass and the sky:
The sky in a silence of wonder,
The grass in a sigh.

I too would sing for your praising,
Dearest, had I
Speech as the whispering grass,
Or the silent sky.

These have an art for the praising
Beauty so high.
Sweet, you are praised in a silence,
Sung in a sigh.







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